LOGGER-HEAD SHRIKE. 
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This species is from 10 to 10J inches in length, and 13 to 14 in 
alar expansion. Above, the adult is pale cinereous, with the sides of 
the head nearly white, crossed with a bar of black that passes from 
the nostril through the eye to the middle of the neck. Beneath some- 
times nearly white , at other times inclining to dusky, and marked 
rather thickly with varied lines of a darker hue (each of the feathers 
marked with 2 or 3 of these rounding transverse bars). The wings are 
black, with a spot of white on the primaries just below their coverts. 
Rump and tail coverts light ash. Tail cuneiform of 12 feathers 
(in the adult), the 2 middle ones only black (in the young 4), the 
others are tipt with white, and the outer pair nearly all white. The 
legs, feet, and bill towards its point, black. Iris bright hazel. In the 
specific character it will be seen that the young differs so much from 
the adult as to disannul the marks of specification. 
LOGGER-HEAD SHRIKE. 
( Lanius ludovicianus, Lin. L. carolinensis , Audubon, pi. 57. [a fine 
group]. Wilson, iii. p. 57. pi. 22. fig. 8. Philad. Museum, No. 
557.) 
Sf. Charact. — Dark slate color; beneath white ; frontlet, wings, 
and tail black ; the tail-feathers, with the exception of the 4 mid- 
dle ones, partly white ; 2d primary longest ; the 1st and 5th equal. 
This species, much resembling the last, inhabits only 
the warmer parts of the United States, residing and breed- 
ing from North Carolina to Florida, where I have ob- 
served it likewise in winter. It was also seen in the 
table-land of Mexico by that enterprising naturalist and 
collector, Mr. Bullock. According to Audubon, it always 
affects the low countries, being seldom met with in the 
mountainous districts,, though they may happen merely 
to intersect the parts it inhabits. Its farthest inland 
migrations are only into the states of Mississippi and 
Louisiana, where it is observed merely to pass the winter 
months. 
