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Sp. 13. La. Ludovicianus. >S^aty, v. vii.p. 294. — North America. 

 Sp. 14. La. Americanus. Sha'w, v. vii. p. 301. — North America. 

 Sp. 15. La. Carolinensis, or Loggerhead Shrike. Wils. Amer. 

 Orn. lii.pl. 22. f. 5. 



Lac nigricajis fronte fascidque oculari nigris ; rectricibus quatuor 



intermediis 7iigris ; reliquis plus minusve albis. 

 Dusky Shrike with the forehead and stripe through the eyes 



black ; the four intermediate tail-feathers black j the rest more 



or less tipped with white. 



Inhabits North America. Length nine inches : 

 allied to the preceding bird : the colour more dusky, 

 and the frontlet and streak through the eye black ; 

 the last running down half way on each side of the 

 neck : irides dark hazel : the four middle tail-feathers 

 black, four exterior more or less white at the ends, 

 the outer nearly all white : beak and legs black. 



Said to destroy mice, to have a rough note, not 

 unlike the creaking of a rusty sign-board in the wind, 

 and to construct its nest in a detached bush. 



B. Rostro subg7'aciie, ajnce vix adunco. 



B. Beak rather slender^ its tip scarcely hooked. 



Sp. 16. La ? Ceylonus. 



Lanius Bacbakiri. Shaw, v. vii. p. 319. — Turdus Ceylonus. 

 Steph. V. X. p, 253. — Ceylon. 



Sp. 17. La. gutturalis. Ann. Mus. (Daudin.) iii. 144. pi. 15. 



La .f* suprd viridis , Jronte superciliisque Jlavis ; lined a na^ es per 

 ochIos lunuldqiie pectorali conjunctd nigris; guld corporeque 

 subtus rujis. 



Shrike above green, with the forehead and eyebrows yellow ; a 

 line from the nostrils passing through the eyes, and united 

 to a lunule on the breast, black ; the throat and body beneath 

 red. 



Pie-griesche Perrin. La Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq, vi. \9.4. pL 286. — 

 Malimbic Shrike. Lath. Gen. Hist, ii. 20. 



