CORVINE, OR LONG-TAILED SHRIKE. 235 
saturated, but of which not the slightest vestige can 
be seen when the feathers are laid smooth. We 
have little doubt but that this is a distinction of 
the male sex, and that in the season of courtship 
these elongated feathers are puffed out on both 
sides, so as to exhibit this ornamental spot to the 
female. The bill, unlike any other shrike, is of 
a bright and pure yellow ; the legs are brown. 
Total length, 1 1 inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 
wings, 4-}j ; tarsus, 1 ; tail, from the base, 6. 
RUFOUS- WINGED SHRIKE. 
Teloplumus erythropterus, Swains. 
Above testaceous brown, beneath whitish ; wing-eovers and 
quills (externally) rufous ; crown, and stripe through the 
eye, black ; sides of the head with a broad whitish stripe. 
Le Tchagra, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afrique, ii. pi. 70. — Pie-grieche 
rousse a tete noir du Senegal, VI. Enl. 479, fig. 1 Lanius 
erythropterus, Shaw , Gent. Zool. viii. 2, 301. 
This is another of the South African Shrikes whose 
geographic range extends to Senegal, and it seems to 
be equally common in both regions. Le Vaill ant 
observes, that but for its cry it is very difficult to 
find, since it frequents only the thickest brushwood 
and the most dense foliage ; such haunts, in fact, 
are the most productive of its favourite food, which 
is the larva and pupa of different insects. Its flight 
is slow, feeble, and near the ground; an imperfec- 
