SHRIKE. m 



91 — MUSTACHOE SHRIKE. 



Lanius mystaceus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xix. Shaw's Zool. vii. 298. 7Vaf.M«c.ii. 869. 

 Pie-griesche rouge a Plastron Wane, Levail. Ois.ii. p. 55. pi. 65. 

 Mustachoe Shrike, Gen.Syn.Sup.'u. 76. 



NEARLY the size of a Blackbird ; length te*n inches and a half 

 or eleven inches, of which the tail occupies full half. Bill and legs 

 dusky ; head, hind part of the neck, back, scapulars, and wings in 

 general, brown black ; throat, and under parts of the body, fine red, 

 growing paler, inclining to yellow at the vent, not unlike in colour 

 to those parts in the Barbary Shrike, to which bird it also approaches 

 in size and shape of the bill ; across the breast is a broad bar of 

 white, and a whisker of white on each side of the under jaw, arising 

 at the gape ; the tail greatly cuneiform in shape, the two middle 

 feathers being five inches long, the outer only one inch and three 

 quarters, the intermediate ones lessening in equal proportions ; the 

 feathers of the tail ten in number, of a lively plain red, paler beneath ; 

 two of the middle quills have the outer webs red, forming a streak ; 

 and the wings, when closed, reach a very little way beyond the base 

 of the tail. 



Inhabits one of the Isles of the South Seas. In some specimens 

 the streak on the wing is white instead of red, probably owing to 

 difference of sex. 



92— TUFTED SHRIKE. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill black, one inch long, stout, with 

 a deep notch near the tip; general colour of the plumage glossy 

 black, the feathers of the crown long, tufted, and capable of being 



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