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INSECTIVORE. 

 Family LANIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Lanius. (Linnceus.) 



LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius minor. 



Lanius minor, Gmelin. 



" " Linn^us, 1788. Temminck, 



1820. 



" " Vieillot. Lesson. Ctjviee. 



" " Keysebling et Blasius. 



" " Schlegel. Schinz. 



" Italicus, Latham, Ind. 1790. 



Averla cenerina, Savi. 



Pie-Grierke grise a front noir, Of the Feench. 



Grauer Wilrger, Of the Geemans. 



Specific Characters, — Wings with, supplementary quill feather 

 short and narrow, and a white speculum ou the primaries; first 

 quill feather much longer than the fourth; tail very long, nearly- 

 square in the middle; two lateral quills entirely white; adult birds 

 with rose-coloured chests. 



Length nine inches. — Degland. Length eight inches. — Tem- 

 minck. 



This 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 prcvious.de- 



