SHRIKE. 59 



60— -CINERACEOUS SHRIKE. 



Edolius cineraceus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 145. 



THIS is eleven inches long, and very similar to the Fork-tailed 

 Crested Species, but the bill is more robust, and the exterior rectrices 

 form a greater curve than in the last named. The colour of the 

 plumage is universally cineraceous, but the quills at the tips, and 

 the outer margins of the lateral feathers are black. 



Inhabits Java. — Dr. Horsfield. Called Chenta. 



61— FORK-TAILED CRESTED SHRIKE. 



Lanius forficatus, Ind. Orn.i. 66. Lin. i. 134. Gm.Lin.i. 297. 

 Lanius Drongo, Shaic's Zool. vii. 289. 



Muscic. madag; nigr. major cristata, Bris. ii. 388. t.37. 4. Id. 8vo.i. 266. 

 Edolius forficatus, Lin. Trans, xiii. 144. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal, p.lxi. 

 Drongo, Bu/.i. 586. PL enl. 189. Levail. Afr. iv. 56. pi. 166. 

 Fork-tailed Crested Shrike, Gen. Syn.'u 158. 



SIZE of a Blackbird; length ten inches. Bill black; at the 

 angles of the mouth a few slender bristles; plumage greenish black; 

 on the forehead an upright crest, near one inch and three quarters 

 long ; tail black, long, greatly forked, edged with greenish black ; 

 legs and claws black. M. Levaillant says, the tail consists of only 

 ten feathers, and that the wings reach to about one-third on it. Some 

 of these are destitute of a crest, and have been supposed females, 

 but this author adds, that the female differs in being smaller, and the 

 crest not half so large ; otherwise like the male. We may therefore 

 suppose, that the individuals without the crest are most probably 

 young birds, not come to adult plumage. 



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