34 SHRIKE. 



30— FERRUGINOUS-BELLIED SHRIKE. 



Lanius ferrugineus, Ind. Orn.i. 76. Gnt: Lin. i. 306. Shaw's Zool. vii. 310. 

 Ferruginous-bellied Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 163. 



SIZE of the Cinereous Shrike ; length nine inches. Bill horn- 

 colour ; plumage above brown black ; lower part of the back and 

 rump brown ; throat and breast dirty white ; belly and vent ferrugi- 

 nous ; tail plain black-brown ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; one of these, in the collection 

 of General Da vies, was only seven inches in length. Plumage above 

 full black, with a streak of white parallel to the length of the wing; 

 under parts, from the chin, white; but the vent, and under tail 

 coverts pale rufous; tail rounded, black, the feathers edged with 

 white. 



31— INDIAN SHRIKE. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill black, stout; crown full 

 of feathers ; head and sides, taking in the eye, and hind part of the 

 neck, to the beginning of the back, black; middle of the back 

 dove-colour; the lower part, and rump ferruginous; under parts, 

 from the chin, white ; lower belly and vent pale ferruginous ; wings 

 wholly dusky, except the shoulders, which are full black ; tail long, 

 and cuneiform, the two middle feathers black, the others dusky, 

 with the outer margins pale rufous, and white tips; legs black; 

 the wings reach to the rump. 



