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of the Peninsula of India. 



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Beneath whiter, because older, the brown being reduced to the shafts of 

 the feathers only. Tail with 7 bars, the last forming a broad dark band 

 at the tip, the others narrower, indistinct, particularly those next the tip. 

 Quills dark brown, not banded. Cere and legs, pale yellow ; bill plum- 

 beous at the base, black at the tip. 



There is little doubt this is anew species. Temminck's bird is only 

 25 inches, and the wings have a band, and the tips of the quills brown. 



In habits it differs much from the last, seeking its prey more frequent- 

 ly on the wing, hunting in pairs and stooping on hares, pea-fowl, &c. 



The living one was caught at the rocky mountain of Awulkondah in 

 the Arcot district, where a pair of them were used to resort, by baiting 

 some falconer's springes with a fowl, on which they both descended. 

 One was caught in the snares, the other alighted on a tree in the neigh- 

 bourhood and was shot. The female measures 28 inches in length. 



Order II. INSESSORES. 



Tribe D.ENTIROSTKES. 

 Family LANIADiE.— Shrikes. 

 Sub Family LANIAD/E.— True Shrikes. 

 Genus LANIUS, Auct. — Collurio, Vig. — Shrike or Butcher Bird. 



48. — L. Hardwiekii. — Coll. Hardwiekii, Vig — Gould Cent. — Pech- 



anuk, H. — Bay backed Shrike. 



This handsome little shrike is the most abundant of the Indian spe- 

 cies, anil is tolerably common in every part except the West Coast. It 

 frequents gardens, hedges and cultivated ground, but chiefly delights in 

 low, thorny, but open, jungle — feeds on locusts, grasshoppers, and also 

 on small birds. 



Bill black — Irides hazel brown; length about eight inches; tail nearly 

 four. 



49. L. lahtora. — Coll. lahtora, Sykes. — L. excubi/or, var. C Lath. — 

 Doodhea latora, H. — Large grey Shrike. 



Generally spread, except on the Western Coast, where it occurs rarely, 



