16 SHRIKE. 



but we are not informed whether it is there plentiful, or only met 



with by chance. 



A. — Pie-griesche rousse du Senegal, PI. enl. 477. 2. Gen. Syn.\. 170. 17. A. 



In this the upper parts are rufous, the under whitish; wings 

 ly brown, with a small spot of white just at the base of the 

 quills; probably a young female. 



I observed am6ng some drawings done in India, a bird very 

 similar, if not the same, with the male Woodchat, under the name 

 of Curcutea.* It was seven inches and a half long, and said to be 

 found about Calcutta, making a harsh noise ; it had a black streak 

 through the eye, bounded above by white ; tail long, rounded, the 

 quills reaching to the base. 



8.— LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius Italicus, Ind. Om. i. 71. Shaiv's Zool. vii. 286. Frisch. t. 60. 



minor, Gm. Lin. i. 308. Gerin. i. t.54. Tern. Man. d'Or/i. p. 60. Id. Ed. ii; 



p. 144. 

 Pie-griesche d'ltalie, Buf.u 298. PI. enl. 31. f.l. 

 Der kleine graue Wurger, Bechst. Deutsch. ii. 3S2. taf. 14. 

 Lesser Grey Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. 54. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 241. B. 



THE forehead in this is black; across the eyes a line of the 

 same ; head, neck behind, and sides of it, back, and wing coverts 



* The Curcutea, so called at Bengal, is a word applied to several animals, and even to 

 children, that have a strong voice. 



