Species II. LANIUS CAROLTNENSIS* 
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 
[Plate XXII. Fig. 5.] 
This species has a considerable resemblance to the Great American 
Shrike. It differs, however, from that bird in size, being a full inch 
shorter, and in color, being much darker on the upper parts ; and in 
having the frontlet black. It also inhabits the warmer parts of the 
United States ; while the Great American Shrike is chiefly confined to 
the northern regions, and seldom extends to the south of Virginia. 
This species inhabits the rice plantations of Carolina and Georgia, 
■where it is protected for its usefulness in destroying mice. It sits, for 
hours together, on the fence, beside the stacks of rice, watching like a 
cat ; and as soon as it perceives a mouse, darts on it like a Hawk. It 
also feeds on crickets and grasshoppers. Its note, in March, resembled 
the clear creaking of a sign board, in windy weather. It builds its 
nest, as I was informed, generally in a detached bush, much like that of 
the Mocking-bird ; but as the spring was not then sufficiently advanced, 
I had no opportunity of seeing its eggs. It is generally known by the 
name of the Loggerhead. 
This species is nine inches long and thirteen in extent ; the color 
above is cinereous or dark ash ; scapulars, and line over the eye, 
whitish ; wings black, with a small spot of white at the base of the 
primaries, and tipped with white ; a stripe of black passes along the 
front through each eye, half way down the side of the neck ; eye dark 
hazel, sunk below the eyebrow ; tail cuneiform, the four middle feathers 
•wholly black, the four exterior ones on each side tipped more and more 
with white to the outer one which is nearly all white ; whole lower parts 
white, and in some specimens, both of males and females, marked with 
transverse lines of very pale brown ; bill and legs black. 
The female is considerably darker both above and below, but the 
black does not reach so high on the front ; it is also rather less in size. 
* Lanius Ludovicianus, Linn., which name must be adopted. In Buffon, pi. enl. 
528, there is a figure of a young bird. — Synonymes : La Pie-gr iesche de la Louisiane, 
Briss. 2, p. 162.— Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 69. 
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