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INSECTIVOR. 
Family LANIDA. 
Genus LANtIUvs. 
( Bonaparte. ) 
(Linneus.) 
LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 
Lanius minor. 
Lanius minor, 
«  Ttalicus, 
Averla cenerina, 
Pie-Grieche grise a front noir, 
Grauer Wiirger, 
GMELIN. 
Linnzvs, 1788. T'EmMMINCK, 
1820. 
Vieittot. Lesson. Cuvier. 
Kerysrertince Et Brastius. 
ScHueGeL. ScHINz. 
’ Laraam, Ind. 1790. 
Savi. 
Or THE FRENCH. 
Or THE GERMANS. 
Specific Characters—Wings with supplementary quill feather 
short and narrow, and a white speculum on the primaries; first 
quill feather much longer than the fourth; tail very long, nearly 
square in thé middle; two lateral quills entirely white; adult birds 
with rose-coloured chests. 
Length nine inches.—Dectanp. 
MINCK. 
Length eight inches.—TrEm- 
Tuts is another of the three Shrikes which Temminck 
considers as a permanent variety or race of the type 
L. excubitor, and which I noticed in the previous: de- 
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