RUFOUS-WINGED SHRIKE. - 237 
brightly coloured, and has no black on the crown 
of the head. The tail is considerably rounded, so 
as to be almost fan-shaped ; the inner toe is scarcely 
shorter than the outer, and is almost free at its 
base. 
Total length, 9 ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; wings, 
3,1 ; tail from the base, 4| ; tarsus, 1 -fa. 
LARGE GREY-HEADED BUSH-SHRIKE. 
Malaconotus olivaceus, Swains, 
PLATE XXII. 
Linger than a thrush ; head, ears, and neck above cinereous ; 
back, wings, and tail olive, with whitish spots ; under parts 
yellow. 
Le Pie-greche Blancliot, Le VaiU. Ois. d'Afritjue, pi. 185— 
Lanins olivaceus, Vieill. Ena/. Meth. p. 730, No. 10. 
This is the largest of all the African Bush-shrikes 
yet discovered, and it exhibits in great perfection 
that superior length of bill by which these birds are 
distinguished from the true or typical Shrikes ; un- 
like these latter, they prowl about among the 
thickets and low trees, capturing by surprise such 
young or sickly birds as are so unfortunate as to 
come in their way; they have neither the strength 
of wing or sharpness of claws to enable them, 
like their more courageous brethren, to dart openly 
