Order, INSESSORES. 
(. Perching Birds.) 
THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
Ash-coloured Butcher-bird. 
Lanius excuhitor, Linn. 
Has occasionally been obtained in the autumn and 
winter. 
Two of these birds came under the notice of Templeton ; one 
shot in the county of Down, and sent to him by Rainey Maxwell 
Esq., and the other, observed by himself in the county of Antrim, 
about the beginning of the present century. Eour, obtained in 
these counties, have come under my own observation. The first, 
a bird in mature plumage, was shot at Echlinville, late in the 
autumn, more than twenty years ago ; — the second, an adult male, 
was killed at Beechmount, near Belfast, in November, 1824; 
another individual was in company with it, and remained about 
the place for a few weeks afterwards ; — in a neighbouring locality, 
one, (perhaps the latter bird,) was shot during the few days 
of frost which occurred at the end of January, 1835. A recent 
adult male was shot on a thorn-hedge at Kilmore, county of Down, 
on the 15tli of January, 1845: in its crop was the greater portion 
of a grey linnet, which was recognised by a few feathers that 
remained. On the 16th of November, 1846, a recent bird of 
this species, killed a few days before, came under my examina- 
tion in Belfast. The contents of the stomach consisted entirely 
