THE SHRIKES. 
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type of esg, the tint varies from olive to pale green and the 
markings'" a re brown, the underlying spots being violet-grey, he 
latter being very large and distinct ; there is the same tendency 
to form a ring near the larger end as in the cream-coloured 
type, but many eggs have the spots distributed over the whole 
surface. Axis, 0-8-0-95 inch ; diam, 0-65-0 7. (1 late XXXI., 
Fig 4-) 
THE WOODCHAT. 
I.ANtUS POMERANUS. 
Lamus rutilus, Macg, Br. B„ iii., p. 502 (1840) ; Lilford, Col. 
Fig. Br. B., pt. xv. (1890). ... 
Lanius auriculatls, P. L. S. Mull. 5 Dresser, B. Eur. 1.1 p. 
407, pi. 151 (1871) 1 Newt. ed. Yarn, u p. 215 (1872), 
Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., m, , p- 283 0 88 3)- 
Lanins pomeravus. Scop.; B. O. U. last Br. B„ p. 3 8 ( l88 oD 
Saunders, Man., p. 14 S ( i 88 9) . 
Lanius rujus , Briss. ; Seeb., Br. B., 1., p. 610 (1883). 
Adult Male— Back black, with conspicuously white scapulars; 
lower back bluish-grey : the rump and upper taihcover s whne 
win ps black with a large white speculum formed by the white 
basts tolhe primaries f tail-feathers black, «M, 
tin the bases of the feathers white, scarcely visible on the 
centre ones, but extending gradually towards the outer ones, 
which are more broadly tipped with white the outermost one 
white along its outer web ; crown of head and hind-neck nc 
chestnut ; a broad frontal band, as well as the feathers round 
the eye and the ear-coverts black, extending m a band down 
the sides of the neck ; a basal spot of white on each side of the 
base of the forehead; cheeks and 
eluding the under wing-coverts, creamy-white; the Iowa Trimary 
coverts dusky blackish, forminga patch near the edge of the b 
quills dusky below, white along the mner webs bd and feet 
black; iris hazel. Total length, 7 ‘S ^hes j culmen, 075, 
wing, 4-0 ; tail, 3‘i ; tarsus, 1-05. 
Adult Female- — Similar to the male, but browner the parts 
which are black in the male being blackish-brown in the 
female; the frontal band, as well as the ear-coverts and the 
sides of the neck mixed with brown, and therefore not so 
