62 SHRIKE. 



blue, except the quills, and under side of the tail, which are without 

 gloss ; the first quill is short, the fourth the longest ; tail six inches 

 and a half long, and much forked, the two outer feathers one inch 

 and a half longer than the next, and two inches and a half longer 

 than the central ones, with the outer webs very narrow ; they tend 

 outwards, and are curved obliquely at the tips; number of tail 

 feathers ten ;* legs black. Some individuals have the vent feathers 

 margined with dirty white, f perhaps owing to difference of sex. 



Inhabits India ; lives in the groves near Calcutta all the year ; is 

 a great enemy to the common Crow ; feeds on insects ; it is a wild 

 species, and cannot be tamed ; the usual song is by no means 

 disagreeable, but the bird is sometimes very clamorous, and screams 

 violently ; is often met With among cattle, and assists the Caag and 

 SalicJ in freeing them from insects. 



This, Dr. Buchanan thinks to be the Bujunga of Hindustan 

 Proper, and the Finga of the Bengalese, and not the Fork-tailed 

 Shrike, as is usually supposed ; yet among some drawings brought 

 from India by Major Roberts, and others, in the possession of Sir 

 J. Anstruther, the latter bird is named Bujunga : hence we may 

 conclude that more than one may go by that name, or, that such 

 birds are more nearly allied than has been hitherto imagined. § 



65. LONG-TAILED SHRIKE. 



Drongolong, Levail. Afr. iv. 72. pi. 174. 



THIS is more slender than the last, particularly the tail, winch 

 is as long as the body, and greatly forked, the two middle feathers 



* Dr. Buchanan. — Levaillant says it has twelve, and that it has a small curled crest over 

 the nostrils, independent of the bristles. 



f I have seen two other varieties : in one the breast, and inside of the ridge of the wing, 

 near the shoulder, was clouded with white; the second had the belly of a slate-colour. 



J Grakles. § It is called, in the Philippine Islands, Bali-cassio. 



