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the vent; head, neck, and scapulars black ; quills and tail brown, 

 rounded at the end, and three inches in length ; the wings, when 

 closed, scarcely reach to the rump. In another the head was black, 

 only as far as the jaws, chin and under parts white, sides and thighs 

 tinged with rufous ; neck behind, and back brown ; scapulars, and 

 part of the lesser wing coverts rufous, the rest of the wing deep 

 brown ; rump ferruginous ; tail very little rounded, deep brown ; this 

 was probably a female, or young bird. 



Among the numerous drawings of Gen. Davies, I observe one of 

 these, in which several of the greater coverts, and second quills, have 

 the outer webs white. This came from the Cape of Good Hope. 



39.— JOCOSE SHRIKE. 



Lanius jocosus, Irid. Orri. i. 73. LinA, 13S. Amatn. Ac. iv. 258. Gm.Lin.L 310. 



Nat. Misc. pi. 645. Shawls Zool. vii. 306. 

 Merula sinensis cristata minor, Bris. ii. 252. t. 21, 2. Id. 8vo. i. 229. 

 Petit Merle huppe des Indes, Son. Voy. hid. ii. 189. t. 109: 



■ de la Chine, Buf. iii. 318. PL enl. 508. 



Fighting Shrike, or Bulbul, Penn. Hind. ii. 261. Orient. Collect, for Jan.- June, 



1797. PL in ditto. 

 Bolbol, Le Brun. Trav. Engl. Ed. pi. 95. f. 1. 

 Jocose Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 175: Id. Sup. p. 53. Id. Sup.il 71: Dixon. Voy. t. p. 360. 



SIZE of the Lark ; length seven inches and a half. Bill blackish, 

 rather more strait than in most of the genus, with a very tine notch 

 near the tip ; crown of the head black, at the back part the feathers 

 elongated as a crest, and brown ; sides of the head, throat, and fore 

 part of the neck white ; from the corners of the mouth a black line, 



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