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111 Gen. Davies's drawing, from a specimen at Mr. Brogden's, 

 the bird was seven inches and a half long. Crown, behind the crest, 

 dusky black ; the white surrounding the neck, more defined ; the 

 white on the wing not so broad, nor the tail so long as in my 

 drawing; legs flesh-colour; tail of twelve feathers, white beneath. 



23.— KEROULA SHRIKE. 



LENGTH five inches and a half; weight ten drams. Bill three 

 quarters of an inch long, dusky, with a few hairs at the base ; 

 nostrils covered with soft, downy feathers, tending forwards ; irides 

 hazel ; general colour of the plumage above fine pale ash-colour, 

 beneath paler, nearly white on the belly and vent ; over the eye a 

 broad streak of white, passing to the hindhead ; through the eye a 

 broader dusky one, not going so far backwards ; the two middle tail 

 feathers cinereous brown, the next on each side rather longer, and 

 dusky black ; the two outer ones white, with a long dusky spot at 

 the tips of the outer webs ; legs dusky. 



The female is six inches long. Bill dusky pale blue, with the 

 same hairs at the base, and downy feathers over the nostrils; plumage 

 in general like that of the male; just round the eye a ring of white; 

 over the eye a broad streak of bufF-colour ; through it a deep 

 cinereous one ; upper tail coverts dusky ; the two middle feathers of 

 the tail pale ash, the others black, the two outer white, in shape at 

 the end a trifle hollowed ; the wings reach one-third on the tail. 



The egg is dusky white, with numerous minute dusky specks, 

 and a zone of a darker colour near the larger end. 



Inhabits India, and called Keroula ; the male shot at Cawnpore, 

 in February ; the female in December.— Gen. Hardwieke. 



