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on each side of the neck, and ending in a point; neck behind, back, 

 and scapulars pale blue-grey ; all beneath, from the chin, white ; 

 wings and tail black, the last even ; the quills reaching to about the 

 middle ; legs brown. 



Native place uncertain ; only met with among the drawings of 

 Mr. Dent, but supposed to have been from India. 



79— CROWNED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill dusky black ; head, and 

 sides of the neck, to the back, black ; from the middle of the crown 

 a yellowish streak passes, above the eye, to the hindhead, encircling 

 the whole as a crown ; all the under parts of the body dusky 

 white ; chin plain, the rest streaked here and there with black ; wings 

 dusky, marked on the coverts with yellow, and the rest of the wing 

 feathers edged with yellow ; rump yellow ; tail black, rounded, or 

 nearly even ; legs dusky. 



Native place uncertain. 



80.— BROWN-STREAKED SHRIKE. 



SIZE of the Missel Thrush ; length twelve inches. Bill stout, 

 yellow horn-colour, on each side of the nostrils some weak bristles I 

 general plumage above reddish brown, the feathers marked with 

 dusky down the shafts ; sides of the head and chin very pale buff- 

 brown; behind the eye a longish brown patch; breast and belly 

 dusky white, crossed with some dusky brown, short marks ; lower 

 belly, and vent plain; wings plain, the ten outer quills largely 

 dashed with rufous in the middle ; tail cuneiform, the two middle 



