22 SHRIKE. 



15 —BLACK AND WHITE SHRIKE. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill stout, one inch long-, and black : 

 plumage above black, beneath white ; ends of the middle, and 

 greater wing coverts white, forming two narrow, undulated, oblique 

 bars ; ridge of the wing white ; all beneath, from chin to vent white; 

 tail much rounded, cuneiform, the two middle feathers plain black, 

 the three next spotted white on the inner webs, and the two exterior 

 ones with white on both webs; on the thigh feathers two black bars; 

 legs deep brown. 



A specimen of this is in the collection of Mr. Bullock ; native 



place uncertain. 



16— COLLARED SHRIKE. 



Lanius collaris, bid. Orn. i. 69. Liri.i. 135. Gm. Lin. i. 299. Shaw's Zool. vii. 295. 



Cap. bona; Spei, Bris. ii. 1S2. 1. 15. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 208. 



Pie-griesche du Cap de B. Esperance, PL enl. 477. 1. 

 Le Fiscal, Levail. Ois. ii. 35. pi. 61. 62. 

 Collared Shrike, Gen.Syn.i. 163. Id. Sup. ii. 68. 



SIZE of the Cinereous Shrike; length 8f inches. Bill blackish; 

 head, and upper part of the body blackish; beneath white; base of 

 the thighs brown before ; edge of the wing white ; on the middle of 

 the quills a spot of white ; the four middle tail feathers black, the 

 next the same, tipped with white ; the fourth has both tip and outer 

 margin white ; legs dusky ; in one the rump was ash-coloured. 



