7 Ge ES LAX. 
Pennant has not given a figure of it in the Britifh Zoology ; and it is 
a fact well known, that both Lewin and Walcot have given figures 
of it drawn from mere defcriptions: this is the more to be regretted 
as no fpecimen of it was either in the Leverian or Britifh Mufeums:; 
and that eminent ornithologift, Mr. Latham, with his accuftomed 
candour acknowledges, in his account of it, that he has never feen it, 
6¢ Mr. Pennant,” fays he, ‘ does not defcribe this bird from his own 
infpection ; and I muft confefs that it has never come under mine.” — 
He alfo, fays Buffon, does not {peak of it as uncommon, but 
gives it, as his opinion, that the red-backed Shrike is a variety of this 
{pecies, as well as fome other kinds he mentions; and adds, that 
from his own obfervation he cannot deny the fact. We have com- 
pared them, and do not hefitate to give them as two diftinct fpecies. 
It is only the male bird that we have in our poffeffion. "We mutt 
own ourfelves indebted for the following defcription of the female to 
Pennant and Latham; nor are we certain that our {pecimen was fhot 
in England, but rather fufpect that it came from Germany.—The 
length is feven inches and three quarters. The female differs from 
the male: the upper part of the head, neck and body are reddifh, 
{triated tranfverfely with brown: the lower parts of the body are of 
a dirty white, rayed with brown, marked near the end with dufky, 
and tipped with red, 
Pot Ag ae 
