ISO 
LAN! US COLLURIO, (Var.) 
WOOD-CHAT SHRIKE. 
Body, above, variegated with reddish- 
white and black; beneath, reddish-white. 
Lanius Collurio, (Variety 3) Gme. 
La Pie-griesche rousse, Buffon. Lev- 
aillant. 
Wood-Chat, Pen. Lath. Bew. Mont. 
Wood-Shrike, Montagu's Supp. 
Wood-chat Shrike, Shaw. 
We have retained the Linnaean specific 
term Collurio, although from the quota- 
tions given below, we doubt not but our 
readers will agree with us in considering 
it as a distinct species. 
The Wood-chat is said by some, to be 
not very uncommon in some parts of Eu_ 
rope, but we very much doubt the accuracy 
of the assertion, as Dr. Latham, in the 
second supplement to his very excellent 
work, on Ornithology, acknowledges never 
