INSECTIVOR. 
Family LANIDAE. 
Genus LAntus. 
HOODED SHRIKE. 
Lanius Tehagra. 
Lanius Tchagra, Le Variuant; Ois d’Afr. 
2, pl. 70. 
5 2“ Scuircet. Drenanp. 
< cucullatus, Temminck, 1840. 
Telophonus erythropterus, SWaAINson. 
Pie-Grieche a Capuchin, Or THE FRENCH. 
Tschagra-Wiirger, OF THE GERMANS. 
Specific Characters.—Above testaceous brown, beneath whitish; 
wing coverts and quills (externally) rufous; crown and stripe through 
the eye black; sides of the head with a broad whitish stripe. 
Total length nine inches; from the gape one inch; wings three 
inches and a half; tail from base four inches and a half; tarsus 
one inch and one-tenth.—Swatnson. 
Tus bird has been introduced into the European 
Fauna in consequence, of its occurrence in Spain, 
especially. More recently it has been killed in the west 
of France, according to Degland. Temminck, in the 
latest additions to his Manual, published in 1840, re- 
marks that he has received it from Andalusia, as well 
as the south of Spain. But it is rather singular that in 
