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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
on the primaries only, the bases of the secondaries being 
black, thus showing a single white bar on the wings ; in 
Lanius excubitor the bases of the secondaries are white, 
the wings exhibiting a double white bar. 
56. Laniiis minor. Lesser Grey Shrike. 
A rare accidental visitor. 
There is a specimen in the Earl of Malmesbury's collec- 
tion at Heron Court that was shot near that place in 
September, 1842. It is the first of this species known to 
have occurred in Britain, and the specimen lay for many 
years unnoticed until it was identified in the year 1894 
by the Rev. M. A. Mathew, who records the fact in the 
" Zoologist " of that year, and describes it as a fine adult 
bird. 
In Mr. Hart's collection at Christchurch is a male 
in splendid plumage, procured on the Poors Common, 
Bournemouth, June 2nd, 1900. 
It is a native of Central and Southern Europe, North 
Africa, and is found eastwards through Persia. In winter 
it visits South Africa. 
57. Lanius collurio. Red-backed Shrike. 
BUTCHER-BlRD. JaCK BAKER. POPE. 
" For nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal ; 
The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speard by the shrike. 
And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey," 
Tentiysotis '''' Maud" 
A summer visitor. 
It arrives in May, and is now found in most parts 
