82 SHRIKE. 



101— LOUISIANE SHRIKE. 



Lanius Ludoviciamis, Lid. Orn. i. 69. Lin.\. 134. Gm. Lin. i. 298. Bris. ii. 162. 1. 15. 



2. Id. Svo. i. 202. Shaw's Zool. vii. 29-1. 

 Lanius Americanus, Gm. Lin.]. 308. 

 Black-crowned Shrike, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 128. 

 Louisiane Shrike, Gen. Syn.\. 162. 



SMALLER than the Cinereous Shrike. Bill, legs, crown, and 

 sides of the head, back, and wing coverts black, marked with a 

 small spot of white, and a larger one of the same on the ridge of the 

 wing ; throat, cheeks, and vent white ; breast and belly tinged with 

 ash-colour; tail long, the two middle feathers black, the others 

 marked with white at the ends, increasing to the exterior ones, in 

 which the black almost vanishes. 



Inhabits North America; found in Louisiana. We suspect that 

 these last may be varieties of each other, if not belonging to the 

 Cinereous species. 



102— AMERICAN SHRIKE. 



Lanius Americanus, Lid. Orn. i. 69. Shaw's Zool. vii. 301. 

 Pie-griesche de la Louisiane, PI. enl. 397. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill and legs pale 

 lead-colour; plumage in general rufous-brown above, and pale yellow 

 beneath ; crown of the head pale grey ; chin white ; behind the eye 

 a whitish streak; quills and tail black, the feathers of the latter 

 tipped with white. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



