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SHRIKE. 



A. — Luzonian Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. p.52. 



Length eight inches. Bill black ; through the eye a black 

 streak; crown of the head, and all the upper parts ash-colour, 

 inclining to tawny on the back ; breast and belly dirty white ; wings 

 black, crossed with tawny ; on the prime quills a white spot ; tail 

 black, tipped with chestnut ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits India ; seems allied both to the Chestnut-backed and 

 Luzonian, but from its size is most probably a variety of the latter; 

 I met with this among the drawings of Lady Impey. 



B. — In this the base of the bill has some hairs nearly as long as 

 the bill itself; it differs from the others, in having the upper parts 

 rufous yellow, clouded across with dusky waves ; beneath white, a 

 little clouded ; from the nostrils a broad black mark, passing under 

 the eye, and growing broader behind ; lesser wing coverts clouded 

 with ash-colour, edged with yellowish ; the rest of the wing black, 

 the feathers more or less yellow at the ends ; base of the greater wing 

 coverts white, forming a spot ; tail black, a little cuneiform, the end 

 very pale rufous ; legs pale lead-colour. 



Inhabits India. 



58 .^-CORVINE SHRIKE. 



Lanius corvinus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 337. 



La grande Pie-griesche, Levail.Afr.il. 118. pi. 78. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length twelve inches. Bill pale yellow ; 

 general colour of the plumage pale greyish ash, inclining to brown ; 

 about the head, especially over the eye, pale rufous ; the outer webs 



