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which passes down on each side of the neck, and growing broad 

 forms a deep crescent on the breast ; within this, and the middle of 

 the belly to the vent, deep red ; tail of a moderate length, rounded 

 at the end, green above, dark coloured beneath; much shorter in 

 proportion than in the Ceylon Thrush, or Barbary Shrike ; as also 

 the legs ; and is probably distinct from either, although appearing 

 to have relation to both. 



Inhabits Malimba, in Africa ; brought from thence by M. Perrin, 

 whence the name given to it, and now in the Museum of Natural 

 History, at Paris ; one is also at Berlin, in the cabinet of M. de 

 Pavlcoul . 



14. -RING-NECKED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, black, 

 bent at the tip, where there is a notch ; forehead, and chin dirty pale 

 buff; top of the head pale ash, and the feathers rather elongated ; 

 under parts of the body white, surrounding the neck as a collar; 

 back dark ash, or lead-colour; wings black; lesser wing coverts 

 white, passing down in a streak the whole length of the wing, arising 

 from several of the second quills being of that colour on the outer 

 webs ; besides which, they are all of them tipped with white ; greater 

 quills nine in number, marked with a large spot of white on the 

 inner webs, nearer the end as the quill is more inward ; first quill 

 short, the second half an inch shorter than the third, but the fourth 

 is longest ; the tail is three inches and a quarter long, even at the 

 end, but the outmost feather is rather shorter than the others; the 

 eight middle black, with the ends white for some length, but the 

 two middle are only so for a quarter of an inch ; the two outmost on 

 each side wholly white; legs flesh-colour, claws brown. 



