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RUFOUS-WINGED SIIRIKE. 
tion naturally to be expected from the extreme 
shortness of its wings, which do not extend beyond 
the upper covers of the tail, and are much shorter 
than those below. The tail itself, on the other 
hand, is long and cuneated, as in all the species of 
Telophonus. So that the size of the bird, although 
not larger than that of our Lanius Collurio is yet 
much longer. 
The plumage of the adult male is as follows : — 
The upper part of the head down to just beyond 
the nape is deep black, which is margined on each 
side by a broad stripe of white tinged with buff, 
which commences at the nostrils, passes over the 
eye, and terminates above the ears ; this is followed 
by a black stripe, much narrower, which is before 
the eye and behind it, but does not tinge the ear- 
feathers ; these latter, with the whole of the plu- 
mage above, is light testaceous tinged with grey on 
the lower hack, rump, and middle tail-feathers. 
The scapulars and tertials are black with a very 
broad external margin of deep buff or cinereous, 
while the whole of the wing-covers and outer web 
of the primaries and secondaries are clear and bright 
rufous. The four pair of lateral tail-feathers are 
deep black, more or less tipt with white ; the mid- 
dle pair and the outer portion of the next are grey 
with transverse dark shades, resembling bars. The 
under plumage is entirely white, hut tinged with 
grey on the sides, and with cream colour on the 
belly, thighs, and under tail -covers. 
The female, according to Le Vaillant, is less 
