44 SHRIKE. 



Inhabits China ; is known by the same name as the first, and 

 kept more for its beauty than song, which is trifling ; the food boiled 

 rice; frequently seen in Chinese paintings. 



D. — Length six inches. Bill dusky ; plumage in general rufous 

 brown ; on the head a pointed crest ; chin black ; through the eye a 

 broad black streak, beneath it one of pale carmine ; prime quills, 

 and first of the secondaries tipped with dull crimson ; tail rounded ; 

 legs greenish. 



The female like the male. I observe among the drawings of 

 Lord Seaforth, a similar bird, without the red spot beneath the eye ; 

 the head much crested ; plumage above brown, beneath white ; the 

 rest as the first described. This last is probably a female or young 

 bird. 



40.- BLACK-CRESTED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill rather bent, black; 

 tongue red, pointed ; top of the head greatly crested ; some of the 

 feathers one inch and three quarters long, and black ; general colour 

 of the plumage fine, pale, tawny-brown above, nearly white beneath; 

 the same on each side under the eye ; close beneath the eye a small 

 curved mark of yellow ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers three 

 inches long, the others much shorter ; legs stout, dusky. 



Inhabits India; called in the Province of Oude, Cawnnorah. In 

 this the tail feathers appear pointed, as if worn, especially the two 



