94 SHRIKE. 



116.— MAGPIE SHRIKE. 



Lanius picattis, Ind. Orn.i. 73. Gm.Lin.'i. 302. 



Leverianus, Gm. Lin, i. 302. Mus. Lev. t. p. 241. Shaw's Zool. vii. 288. t.38. 



La Pie Pie-griesche, Levail, ii, 33. pi. 60. Daud. ii. 246. 



Tangara, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxx. 



Magpie Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 192. Id. Sup. 54. Id. Sup. ii. 70. 



SIZE of a Song Thrush ; length ten inches. Bill strong, black, 

 with a very slight notch near the tip ; head, neck, and middle of 

 the breast glossy black ; back, shoulders, and lesser wing coverts, 

 belly, sides, thighs, and vent white ; greater wing coverts, and 

 second quills black, margined with white ; greater quills wholly 

 black ; tail long, and cuneiform, the two middle feathers four inches 

 and a half in length, the outer only two ; all of them tipped with 

 white, which occupies most space on the outer feathers ; legs stout, 

 and black. 



Inhabits South America. On a label tied to the leg of one 

 brought from Cayenne, was written, Vale Savane, which probably 

 meant the name of the bird ; from the mixture of black and white 

 in the plumage, it gives the idea of a small Magpie. 



117— BLACK SHRIKE. 



Lanius niger, Ind. Orn. i. 73. Gm. Lin. i. 301. Shaw's Zool. vii. 319. 

 Black Shrike, Gen. Syn.i. 187. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black, like that of the Tyrant, but 

 stouter in proportion, less compressed, and hooked at the tip, base 

 beset with bristles ; general colour of the plumage glossy black ; tail 

 somewhat cuneiform ; legs black. 



