170 MASKED SHRIKE. 
both young and old in Greece. Length six inches and 
one-sixth. It has a broad white stripe, which extends 
across the forehead and over each eye; the scapulars 
clear white; the whole upper part of the body, head, 
back, and tail blue black; the wings brown black, with 
a clear white speck upon the tenth primary; the second- — 
aries and wing coverts whitish at the edges; breast, 
red yellow; feathers on the abdomen bright rust-coloured. 
Tail feathers white, with black shafts; first feather an 
inch shorter; second the same, haying its mner side 
with a narrow border of black; the third black, with 
a white wedge-shaped spot on the mner side, and a 
larger one on the outside. 
The young have the whole upper part of the body 
greyish, with thick black wave-like lines; all the feathers 
yellowish red at the edges; the scapularies whitish, with 
black waves; the spots on the wings like those on the 
old birds, but smaller, with white edges to the primaries, 
broader on the hinder ones. ‘Tail brown black, other- 
wise the same as in old birds; throat, white; whole 
under part of body whitish, with black waves; under 
wing coverts the same. Beak and feet black. 
Habitat on the thorn bushes along the banks of the 
Phalerus, near Athens.” 
Figured by emminck, pl. 256, f. 2. 
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