SHRIKE. 77 



quills margined with white; the vipper parts of the body mouse- 

 colour; beneath bluish ash-colour; tail cuneiform, all except the 

 two middle feathers tipped with white. 



Inhabits Surinam, and is probably the same bird mentioned by 

 Vieillot, as above referred to. 



95.— BLACK-CAPPED SHRIKE. 



Lanius pileatus, Ind. Om.\. 76. Shaw's Zool. v'ri. 335. 

 Black-capped Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 54. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill one inch, hooked at the tip, dusky ; 

 the head much crested, some of the feathers three quarters of an inch 

 long ; head, and fore part of the neck, to the middle of the belly, 

 black ; the upper parts of the body greyish ash-colour; between the 

 wings mottled with brown ; wing coverts tipped with white, giving 

 the appearance of being barred; outer edge of the second quills 

 white; upper tail coverts and tail tipped with white; on the outer 

 feathers two white spots ; legs black. 



One with the above, supposed to be the female, had the crown 

 smooth, and blackish ; chin and throat ash-colour ; the upper part 

 of the body much like the other ; between the shoulders mottled 

 with white; tail as in the male, but the outer margins white. 



Both these were brought from Cayenne. 



96.— SPOTTED SHRIKE. 



Lanius naevius, Ind. Orn.i. 81. Gm. Lin.'i. 308, Shaw's Zool. vii. 325. 

 — — punctatus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 327.. Zool. Misc. t. xvii. 

 Le Tachet, Levail.Afr.il. 113. pi. 77. f.l. 

 Batara, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lviii. 

 Spotted Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 190. 



LENGTH about six inches. Bill black ; upper parts of the body 

 wholly black, except a few of the feathers at the beginning of the 



