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the nape; chin and throat pale rufous; back green; rump, wing 

 coverts, and inner parts of the wing fine blue; outer part of the 

 wing, and quills black ; the greater for the most part white out- 

 wardly ; second quills green ; tail black, the ends of the feathers 

 blue-black; legs black. 



Native place uncertain ; the description taken from a collection 

 of drawings. 



38 —RUFOUS SHRIKE. 



Lanius rufus, Lid. Orn. i. 77; Lin.i. 137. Gm. Lin.'i. 303. Bris.'n. 178. t.18. f.4. 



Id. 8vo.i. 207. Gerin.i. t.59. 1. Shaw's Zool.vxi. 287. 

 Pie-griesche rousse de Madagascar, Schet Be, Buf. i. 313. PI. enl. 298. 2. 

 Rufous Shrike, Gen.Syn.i. 180. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill lead-colour, 

 base bristly ; head, throat, and neck greenish black ; body above 

 rufous, beneath cinereous white; thighs cinereous; quills brown, 

 edged with rufous and brown ; tail rufous, the margins of the feathers 

 brown on both sides near the ends ; legs horn-colour. 



The female is less vivid in appearance ; throat, and neck before 

 grey; the outer edge of the quills pale rufous; otherwise like the 

 male. 



Inhabits Madagascar, where the male is called Schet be, and the 

 female Tcha-chert-dae. This bird is also found in various parts 

 of India, from whence I have met with specimens, as well as 

 drawings. In one, supposed to be a male, the colours were bright 

 rufous above, and pale rufous beneath, approaching to white near 



