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98 — LINEATED SHRIKE. 



Lanius lineatug, Lineated Shrike, Zool. Misc. t. 6 ? 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill one inch long, black, remarkably 

 stout, as in the Pied Barbet, and curved at the tip; the whole plumage 

 black, crossed with numerous fine lines of white throughout, but 

 mostly narrow, and closer on the crown ; the quills have only the 

 outer webs spotted with white, and eight or ten of the greater coverts 

 marked in the same manner; under parts of the body transversely 

 marked black and white, as the upper, but the black lines being- 

 more narrow, give the parts a whitish appearance, barred with black; 

 tail cuneiform, blackish, crossed with twelve or more curved, fine 

 white lines on each side of the shaft ; the wings, when closed, reach 

 one-fourth on the tail ; legs stout, one inch long, and dusky. 



Inhabits Berbice, and other parts in the neighbourhood of 

 Surinam; called there Kwakwarra; said to be a male. — In the 

 collection of Mr. M'Leay, where I observed the three last described; 

 all of them are marked with the same name, as if varieties of one 

 another, but on attending to them accurately, I am of opinion that 

 they are all distinct species. 



99— SOUTH AMERICAN SHRIKE. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill stout, dusky, under 

 mandible yellowish ; plumage above rufous, mixed with black ; 

 crown darker, and plain ; beneath barred cinereous and black ; quills 

 margined with black, and fringed outwardly with rufous ; tail three 

 inches and a quarter long, rounded at the end, crossed with about 

 twelve obsolete bars of deeper ash ; the outer feather half an inch 



