SHRIKE. SI 



of the body rufous, under dirty orange, marked with transverse lines 

 of black ; behind each eye a black mark, like a crescent ; quills 

 brown, edged with paler brown; tail rufous, beneath grey; legs 

 and claws black. 



Inhabits Bengal, where it is called Charah. 



51— ANTTGUAN SHRIKE. 



Lanins Antiguanus, Ind. Orn. i. 72. Gm. Lin. i. 301. Shaw's Zool. vii. 333. 

 Pie-griesche d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. p. 114. t.70. Tern. Man. Ed. 2. Anal. p. lix. 

 Antiguan Shrike, Gen. Syn.'i. 171. 



SIZE of the Red-backed Shrike. Bill large, black ; the upper 

 mandible very long, and the curvature so great, as to appear quite 

 unnatural ; irides dusky ; head black ; back yellowish rufous ; throat 

 and breast white ; quills and part of the wing coverts black ; wings 

 short, reaching only to the beginning of the tail, which is long and 

 cuneiform ; the two middle feathers black, the others black above, 

 reddish beneath, tipped with a rufous spot ; legs dusky black. 



Inhabits Panay, one of the Philippine Isles, but principally about 

 Antigue, one of the provinces thereof. In compliance with the 

 sentiment of M. Sonnerat, I place this as a species, but from the 

 singular curvature, not to say monstrosity, of the bill, it might be 

 taken for a Lusus Naturce, as far as relates to that part, and I am 

 led to suppose this, from observing among the drawings of Sir J\ 

 Anstruther, a bird similar in plumage, but with the bill of a 

 moderate size. 



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