SHRIKE. 43 



A. — Jocose Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 71. 



This is nine inches long-. Bill brown, at the base four or five 

 bristles ; plumage above brown, beneath very pale ; on the head a 

 long pointed crest; rump white; vent and under tail coverts crimson; 

 tai] long, all the feathers tipped with white. 



This specimen was from Guzurat, in India, and in the British 

 Museum ; the same is also said to be found about Calcutta. 



B. — Length seven inches. Bill smaller than in the last, with a 

 slight notch near the tip ; head black at the top, and crested ; 

 plumage above dark brown, beneath white ; under the eye, the vent, 

 and under tail coverts crimson ; rump as the back ; tail shorter than 

 in the last, and the feathers not tipped with white. 



C— Sitta chinensis, Osb.It.n. p. 12. Gm. Lin.'i. 442. 

 Chinese Nuthatch, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 655. Shaw's Zool. viii. 118. 



A little larger than a Goldfinch. Bill and head black, the last 

 crested ; from thence above to tail dark ferruginous, with a bluish 

 tinge; breast and belly white; under the eye an oblong, scarlet 

 spot, and close to it a larger white one ; from the temples to the 

 throat a black line; chin and throat white, encompassed with black, 

 except a white line in the middle of the breast, joining the white on 

 the throat ; rump yellow ; coverts over the quills dark ferruginous ; 

 tail blackish, tipped with white. 



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