GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
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pair seen on Yarmouth Common in the spring of 1841 
(Bury, "Zoologist," 1844). 
Wise writes that a straggler is killed now and then by 
the forest keepers. 
One near Christchurch, December, 1875 (Hart's col- 
lection) . 
One at Alton (Bell's Edition of White). 
One at Brading in 1881 (Hadfield). 
One near Christchurch, December 31st, 1884 (Hart). 
One at Newport, October 27th, 1887 (Hadfield, in the 
"Zoologist," 1889). 
One in Lord Malmesbury's collection at Heron Court, 
shot at Haddon, Hill, 1889. 
One near Christchurch, November 15th, 1889 (Hart). 
Two at Stockbridge, 1890 (Winchester College col- 
lection). 
As we consider Lanius major (Pallas's great grey 
shrike) is but a form of the foregoing we have not 
included the following under the heading of a separate 
species. 
Mr. Sutton Davies writes as follows in the " Zoologist " 
of 1894: "After I had sent in my notes for 1892, a barred 
woodpecker was shot in the last week of 
December ; and, in the same week, a great grey shrike 
was shot at Chilbolton and sent to Mr. Chalkley's to be set 
up. I saw the bird, which showed the white bar on the 
primaries only, and therefore was probably the L. -major 
of Pallas." 
This bird has not been included in any previous list of 
Hampshire Birds. 
It very closely resembles the last, and is found from 
North Scandinavia eastwards throughout Siberia. It is 
distinguished from Lanius excubitor by having a white bar 
