SHRIKE. 



shorter than the middle ones; the wings reach to the base; legs 

 dusky. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; said to be a female. 



A. — A Shrike, very much like the last, is in the possession of 

 Lord Stanley, eight inches or more long. Bill one inch and three 

 quarters from the gape, stout, dusky black, with a notch at the 

 tip ; head and neck, for the most part, black ; chin, and sides of the 

 neck marked with waved, dusky white, transverse lines ; feathers of 

 the nape elongated, and form a short kind of crest of fine rufous, 

 or chestnut brown ; the hind part of the neck also ferruginous 

 chestnut; back and rump ferruginous brown, with obsolete, dark 

 waved lines ; wing coverts marked with concentric rufous-brown and 

 black curves, the last at the ends of the feathers ; quills fine 

 ferruginous brown without, and on the inner webs dusky; all beneath, 

 from the breast, barred dusky white, and dusky, three or four bars 

 on each feather ; tail rounded, three inches long, cinereous grey, with 

 eight or ten dusky black bars on each feather ; upper tail coverts 

 barred also with the same ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits South America ; is probably a variety, or diners in sex 

 from the last described. 



100— GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius Nengeta, hid. Orn. i. 68. Lin. i. 135. Gm. Lin. i. 298. Shaw's Zool. vii. 287. 



Cotinga cinerea, Bris.W. 353. Id. Svo.i. 256. 



Guirarou Nheengeta, Raii, 166. Will. 170. Id. Orn. 235. J3?*/.iv. 459. 



Grey Pye of Brazil, Edw. 318. 



Grey Shrike, Gen. Syn.x. 183. Id. Sup. p. 53. Arct. Zool.n. 240. A. 



SIZE of the Thrush ; length nine or ten inches. Bill dusky, 

 beset with bristles at the base ; irides sapphire-coloured ; from the 



