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With the above is another, which is probably the female; size the 

 same. Forehead pale greyish white, with a little mixture of dusky 

 rufous; upper parts of the bird pale rufous brown, beneath sandy 

 grey ; belly paler ; rump and vent as the back, but lighter coloured ; 

 all the under parts crossed with fine triangular lines of black ; wings 

 wholly dusky ; the feathers edged with rufous ; tail cuneiform, but 

 less so than in the other bird ; the two middle feathers dark brown, 

 the others dark, with rufous edges ; legs brown. 



Inhabits India ; from the collection of Lady Clive ; communicated 

 to me by General Da vies. 



70— BLACK-EYED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill dusky black, bent at 

 the tip, and bristly ; crown of the head, and all above fine rufous, 

 inclining to orange; cheeks, and all the under parts white; from 

 the forehead springs a broad streak of black, which passes through 

 the eye, and reaches to the hindhead ; wings black brown, the edges 

 of the feathers paler ; tail two inches and a half long, cuneiform, 

 pale rufous brown, edged with a paler colour; on the edge of the 

 wing, near the bend, a small patch of white; legs black. 



Inhabits Malacca. 



71 —CHINESE SHRIKE. 



Lanius Schach, Ind. Orn. i. 75. Osb. Voy. 227. Gm. Lin. i. 303. Shaw's Zool. vii. 324. 

 Chinese Shrike, Gen. Si/n, i. 173. 



SIZE of the Tyrant Shrike. Forehead yellowish ; head, and 

 neck behind grey; neck before testaceous white; back and belly 



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