SHRIKE. 9-> 



Inhabits the internal parts of Jamaica, whence I received two 

 specimens, by the name of Black Loggerhead ; one of them had 

 the outer edge of the second quills brown; probably differing in sex. 



118— ORANGE SHRIKE. 



Lanius aurantius, Ind. Orn. i. 79. Shaw's Zool. vii. 336. 

 Orange Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 57. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill one inch, black ; top of the head 

 and sides, parallel with the under jaw, and the nape black ; upper 

 part of the neck and body yellow ; beneath the same, but less bright; 

 chin and breast inclining to rufous ; wing coverts brown ; quills and 

 tail the same, but darker ; legs horn-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



A. — In one of these, which I esteem as a variety, the head and 

 chin are black ; bill stout, black ; the rest of the body golden yellow, 

 but the breast and rump deeper, and incline to orange ; at the inner 

 joint of the wing a spot of white ; wings and tail black brown, the 

 latter three inches in length ; legs slender, brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — Taken from the drawings of General Davies, 

 and probably differs from the other in sex. 



119.— NORTHERN SHRIKE. 



Lanius septentrionalis, Ind. Orn.'i. 76. Gm. Lin.i. 306. Shaw's Zool. vii. 331. Vieill. 



Am.\. 82. 

 Northern Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 165. 



LENGTH near eight inches. Bill black, not much bent ; 

 nostrils round and small ; at the base of the upper mandible five or 



