32 SHRIKE. 



27 —WHITE-BACKED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill three quarters of an inch long, 



black ; top of the head, and sides including the eyes, neck behind, 

 and beginning of the back black; the rest of the back, and all 

 beneath, from the chin, white ; wings, rump, and tail black, the 

 last three quarters of an inch long, somewhat rounded at the end ; 

 the wings reach a trifle beyond the rump. 



Inhabits Africa ; in the collection of Mr. Brogden. This seems 

 to bear affinity with the Hottniqua species. 



A second of these, supposed to be the female, differed chiefly in 

 having the middle of the back pale ash-colour, and the feathers of 

 the wings fringed outwardly with white, giving a streaked appear- 

 ance ; the two middle feathers of the tail plain, the rest fringed 

 outwardly at the ends with white. This was in the collection of 

 Mr. Salt ; probably from Abyssinia. 



28— PUFF-BACKED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill black ; plumage above 

 black, beneath white ; inner wing coverts half black, half white, 

 the others white on the outer margins ; the quills the same ; tail two 

 inches and half long, even, fringed at the tip with white ; at the 

 middle of the back a very large tuft of downy, white feathers, 

 standing up like a puff; legs black. 



