SHRIKE. 73 



87— TABUAN SHRIKE. 



Lanius tabuensis, Ind. Orn. i. 76. Gin. Lin. i. 306. Shaw's Zool. rii. 321. 

 Tabuan Shrike, Gen. St/n. i. 164. 



LENGTH eight inches and three quarters. Bill one inch long, 

 brown, not much curved, with a small notch ; top of the head 

 greenish brown ; body above olive-brown ; sides of the head much 

 darker; throat and breast ash-colour ; paler down the shafts of the 

 feathers; belly pale yellowish brown, vent dusky; outer edge of the 

 wings, and greater quills black ; the second quills black-brown, 

 margined with dusky white ; tail brown ; legs the same. 



Inhabits the Friendly Isles, in the South Seas. The specimen, 

 from which the above description was taken, brought from Ton- 

 gotaboo. 



88— BRIMSTONE SHRIKE. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch and three quarters long, 

 stout, rather strait, except at the tip, which is hooked, colour dusky ; 

 top of the head dusky black; the rest of the upper parts olive-brown; 

 all beneath brimstone-colour, but dull ; vent nearly white ; tail four 

 inches long, even at the end, all but the two middle feathers margined 

 within the tip with white ; the first quill very little more than half 

 the length of the adjoining; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



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