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SHRIKE. 



among the black feathers of the head, there changing to dusky 

 orange ; back of the head, and back dark olive; all the quills black, 

 but the outer edge bright red, making the wing, when closed, to 

 appear entirely red, or orange ; upper wing coverts orange, with a 

 narrow black streak down the middle ; scapulars orange, with a 

 broad black streak ; chin dirty white ; neck and breast pale ash- 

 colour; belly paler; under tail coverts red; tail black, cuneiform, 

 tipped with white; the two middle feathers brown, faintly barred 

 with numerous black streaks; legs brown. 



Inhabits Senegal, and other parts of Africa. Some years since 

 one was killed at Algiers, which is in the latitude of Gibraltar, and 

 it has been seen in the fortress itself, but thought as an uncommon 

 circumstance. 



A. — Pie-griesche gvise a tete noire, PL enl. 479.1. 

 Lanius erythropterus, Shaiv's Zool. vii. 301. 

 Le Tchagra, Levail. Ois. ii. 81. pi. 70. 1. 2. 



In this the top of the head is black, with a white streak over the 

 eye, as in the other; upper parts of the body inclining to rufous, 

 under quite white ; tail cuneiform, dark, the end white ; both this 

 and the other differ from that represented in pi. enlum. 297. 1. as in 

 the latter the tail is even at the end, and all of one colour; the black 

 mark only seen behind the eye, and not passing through it ; likewise 

 the under parts of the bird are not white, but pale bluish ash-colour. 



The female is rather smaller ; top of the head not black, but in 

 other marks much like the male, except in the colours being less 

 brilliant; the young of both sexes cinereous brown, paler than the 

 adult, and the white inclines to rufous. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, about the River Gamtoos, and 

 from thence to Caffraria, as well as at Senegal ; said to make the 

 nest among the bushes, and to lay five eggs, spotted with brown. 



