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INSECTIVORJE. 

 Family LANIDjE. 

 Genus Lantus. (Linnet 



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MASKED SHRIKE. 



Lanius personatus, 



" nubicus, 



" leiicomotopon, 

 Leucomefopon Nuhicum, 



Pie-Griec/te niasquee, 



Temminck. Schlegel. 

 1844. 



LlCHSTENSTEIN; Cat: 



Mus: Berlin, 1823. 



Count Muhle, 1844. 



Bonaparte. 



Capt. Loche; Cat: des 

 Mam., et des Ois: 

 Observe en Algerie, 

 1858. Supplementary- 

 list, p. 154. 

 Of the French. 



Specific Characters. — "Wings with a rather lengthened bastard 

 quill feather, marked with a white spot. First quill feather longer 

 than the fifth; tail long and sloped, with the most lateral quill 

 feather white, shaft black; the following one also white; inner 

 feather with the shaft and edges black. 



Length nineteen centimetres (seven inches and a half.) — Deg- 

 land. Length six inches and one-sixth, (Paris.) — Muhle. 



This bird appears to have been first described by 

 Lichstenstein, in bis Catalogue of Duplicate Birds in 

 the Museum of Berlin, and published in 1823, under 

 the name of Lanius nubicus. It was subsequently dis- 



