234 CORVINE, OR LONG-TAILED SHRIKE. 
ever, record it as an inhabitant of Senegal, where it 
seems to he not uncommon*. 
The ground of the upper plumage is very light 
fawn or drab, inclining to brownish grey; each feather 
of the crown, neck, and back having a dark stripe 
down the middle ; on the sides of the head, above 
the eyes and ears, are whitish tinged with rufous ; 
while the space between the eye and bill, as also the 
ears, are blackish brown. The scapulars have two 
marginal concentric black lines round each feather, 
but the wing-covers have only one, placed just within 
the extreme margin, which is light-grey ; the lesser 
quills and tertials are the same as the greater wing- 
covers ; but the greater quills are clear ferruginous 
or diluted rufous, with more or less of their terminal 
half blackish. The long narrow tail-feathers are 
like the scapulars, but with the black markings 
more broken into spots. The under plumage is 
dirty white mottled with indistinct transverse spots 
disposed sometimes in pairs, or rather imperfectly 
divided. 
We shall now notice the most remarkable cha- 
racter of this curious bird, and which has been 
entirely overlooked by all who have hitherto de- 
scribed it. The feathers on the flanks, upon being 
raised, will be found remarkably long ; concealing, 
as it were, from the eye of the observer, a large 
patch of very deep and pure chestnut with which 
the lower half of each feather more or less is 
* We have received numerous specimens from Southern 
Africa, also from the Gambia. — E d. 
