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LANIID^. 



Sp. 2, Ma. olivaceus. 

 Laiiius olivaceus. Shaw, t;. vii. p. 330. 



Sp. 3. Ma. erythropterus. 



Lanius erythropterus. Shaw,y. "vii. p. 30!. — Laiiius Senegalus. 



Shavoy V. vii. p. 314. 

 Sp. 4. Ma. atro-coccineiis. ZooL Jour. [Burchell) i. 4G1 . pi. xviii. 



Ma. supra niger suhtus coccineus ; alls nigris, lined nlbd longi- 



tudinaliter notatis. 

 Malaconotus above black, beneath scarlet ; with the wings black, 



longitudinally marked with a white line. 



Length nine inches : head and upper parts of the 

 plumage above black : tail black, with its two outer 

 feathers often tipped with reddish-yellow : the rump 

 indistinctly striped with white : all the under parts 

 of the plumage, from chin to vent, are fine scarlet : 

 the wings are black with a white line, formed by the 

 outer webs of the fifth and sixth quills being of that 

 colour, and by those of part of the scapulars and 

 wing-coverts ; this line reaches from the shoulders : 

 the femoral feathers are black : the legs, beak, claws, 

 and irides, black : the nostrils are clothed with short 

 bristles. 



Sp. 5. Ma. dorsalis. 



Ma. niger infra albns; remigibus tectricibusque alarum internis 

 albo nigroque dimidiatis ; in medio dorsijasciculo elevate peti" 

 ?iariim lanup-inosarum. 



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Black Malaconotus beneath white; with the quills and inner 

 wing-coverts half black half white, with an elevated tuft of 

 dovrny feathers in the middle of the back. 



Puff-backed Shrike. Lath. Gen, Hist. ii. 32. 



Length six inches and a half: beak black : plumage 

 above black, beneath white : inner wing-coverts half 



