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cinereous, palest on the rump ; ridge of the wing white ; prime quills 

 black, with a white spot near the base ; secondaries black, with 

 white tips; throat white; breast and belly tinged with rose-colour ; 

 tail black, the ends of all but the two middle feathers white. The 

 female has the rose-colour on the under parts more dull, and the black 

 on the forehead narrower, and more verging to brown. 



Found in Spain and Italy ; also met with in Russia and Siberia, 

 as well as in some of the southern parts of France ; rarely seen in 

 Holland ; said to make the nest on shrubs, and to lay six pale green 

 eggs, with a belt composed of dots, near the middle. 



9— RUFOUS-TAILED SHRIKE. 



Lanius pricenicurus, Ltd. Orn. i. 71. Pall. It. iii. 693. Gm. Lin.'i. 309. Shaw's Zool: 



vii. 311. 

 Rufous-tailed Shrike, Gen. Syn.\, 166. 



LENGTH 7i inches ; weight thirteen drams at least. Bill black ; 

 irides hazel ; over the eye a narrow white eyebrow, and through it a 

 streak of black, broader behind ; upper parts of the body pale 

 rufous-grey, the under rufous-white ; sides inclining to rufous ; 

 greater wing coverts and quills dusky, with a little mottling of white 

 at the base of the greater, but not forming a patch ; rump and tail 

 dull rufous, rounded at the end; legs black; the wings reach to 

 the upper tail coverts. 



The female is seven inches long. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 brown ; plumage above rufous-grey, beneath rufous-white ; over the 

 eye a pale trace, and through it a broad dusky streak ; quills dusky; 



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