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36 —ASH-CROWNED SHRIKE. 



Lanius poliocephalus, Ash-crowned Shrike, Salt. Trav. App. p. 1. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, blackish, a trifle curved at the end, with a very small notch, 

 and much covered with the feathers of the front ; crown hoary, livid, 

 lightest about the eyes ; on the ears a blackish spot ; round the neck 

 a collar of white, extending to all beneath ; belly tinged with dirty 

 white ; parts above brownish black ; on the wings a white line, from 

 the point of the shoulder, passing across the coverts, and down the 

 exterior web ; the remainder tipped with white ; the rest of the quills 

 have, on each, a large round spot on the inner web ; tail square, the 

 two outer feathers wholly white, but the others are only so at the 

 tips ; legs lightish oker ; claws brown. 



Two specimens were shot in Abyssinia, and are now in the 

 collection of Lord Stanley. 



37.— BLUE-SHOULDERED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 pale brown ; crown pale chestnut, or rufous, marked within with a 

 curved black crescent ; from the base of the bill, a broad black streak 

 through the eye, after which it increases in breadth, and finishes on 



