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boat-shaped. The wings are shorter than those of L. borealis, the first or spurious feather 

 proportionably longer. The fourth quill feather is the longest, as in that species ; the third 

 very nearly equals it ; and the fifth is scarcely a line shorter. The second, however, is a 

 little longer than the sixth ; whereas in L. borealis it is a little shorter. The sinuations of 

 the exterior webs of the third, fourth, and fifth are the same as in L. borealis. The tail is 

 more cuneiform than in that species, and the feathers are individually considerably narrower. 

 The exterior tail feather is an inch and a quarter shorter than the central pair. The inner toe 

 is equal in length to the outer one ; and the claws are less curved than in the allied species. 



Indies. Lines. 

 Length of the hill along the curve of its ridge 8 



of the tarsus .... 1 2^ 



of the middle toe ... 8 



of its claw .... 3J 



of the hind toe . . . .0 5£ 



of the hind claw ... 4 



The Lamm Nootka of Dr. Latham (Natka Shrike of Pennant), being found on 

 the north-west coast of America, is entitled to appear in this work ; but nothing 

 more is known of it than Pennant's description ; nor are we certain as to its place 

 in the system. 



The Prince of Musignano having laid some stress upon the relative lengths of 

 the quill feathers as specific distinctions of the Lanii, and the subject having 

 been touched upon in page 112 of this work; we have drawn up the following 

 table, embodying the information the Prince has given on this head in his 

 Synopsis (p. 72), with that to be derived from the preceding account of the 

 species inhabiting the fur-countries. 



TABLE OF THE RELATIVE LENGTHS OF THE QUILL FEATHERS. 





Dimensions. 



Inches. 



Lines. 



Length from the tip of the hill to the end of 



Leng 



the tail 9 



9 



„ ' of the tail .... 4 



5 



„ of the longest quill feather . 4 



2 



,, of the hill from the angle of the 



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Species. 



Authority. 





Longest quill fr. 



Comp. length of 5th. 



Comp. length of 2nd. 



L. excubitor, 



BoNAP.* 



Europ. 



sp. 3rd. 



5th consid. shorter than 3rd. 



2nd - 7th. 



,, excubitor, 



Swains. 



Engl, s 



p. 3rd = 4th. 





2nd = 6th. 



,, septentrionalis, 



Bonap. 



. 



. 4th. 



5th - 3rd. 



2nd = 7th. 



„ Ludovicianus, 



Bo NAP. 



, 



3rd. 





. 2nd = 6th. 



,, borealis, 



Swains. 





. 4th. f 



5th a line shorter than 4th. 



2nd two lines shorter than 6th 



., excubitorides, 



Swains. 



. 



3rd - 4th. 



5th half a line shorter. 



2nd nearly equal to the 6th. 



„ elegans, 



Swains. 



. 



4th. f 



5th a line shorter. 



2nd longer than the 6th. 



* The Prince of Musignano, considering the first quill feather as spurious, numbers the second as the first ; but in 

 this table we have altered his numeration to agree with our own. 



| In these the third quill feather is intermediate in length between the fourth and fifth. 



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