SHRIKE. 19 



11.— BARBARY SHRIKE. 



Lanius barbarus, Ind. Orn.'i. 79. Lin. i. 137. Gm. Lin.\. 304. 



Senegalus ruber, Bris. ii. 185. 1. 17. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 209. Gerin. t. 61. 2. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 297. 2Vaf. Mwc. pi. 246. 

 Pie-griesche du Senegal, PL enlum. 56. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lix: 

 Gonolek, Bvf. i. 314. Levail. Ois. ii. 78. pi. 64. 

 Barbavy Shrike, Gen. Syn.\. 173. Id. Suj).n. 72. 



SOMEWHAT less than the Redwing ; length 8f inches. Bill 

 black, at the base bristly ; plumage above black, beneath red ; 

 crown, nape, thighs, and under tail coverts yellow ; wings, tail, and 

 claws black. 



The female is rather smaller ; only the crown yellow, with a tinge 

 of green ; and the red on the belly less brilliant. 



In one presented to the British Museum by Mr. Schotte, the 

 plumage is black; crown, and thighs yellow; belly red. Another 

 in the collection of Mr. Brogden, is more than eleven inches long ; 

 general markings as in the others, but the vent is buff-brown, nearly 

 white ; tail four inches and a half long, a trifle rounded at the end. 



Inhabits Senegal ; met with also at the Cape of Good Hope, in 

 the country of the great Namaquas, but is not common. Those seen 

 by M. Levaillant had no particular note, nor could the food be 

 determined on, except that in the stomach were found the remains 

 of insects. 



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