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PERCHING BIRDS. 
are bluish grey in ground-colour, spotted and blotched with dark grey and brown. 
Captive specimens will eat not only insects, but likewise small frogs; and, in 
default of thorns, will hang their prey on the crossbars of their cage. The adult 
male has the crown of the head and lower neck bright chestnut; the forehead and 
ear-coverts jet black; the scapulars and rump pure white; the wings and tail 
black-and-white; and the lower-parts white, slightly tinged with huffish red. 
WOODCHAT, MASKED, AND HOODED SHRIKES (| nat. size). 
Masked Shrike. 
The masked shrike ( L . nubicus), represented in the upper figure 
of the illustration above, is a Nubian species, which passes the 
summer in Greece as well as the northern parts of Africa. It arrives in the Morea 
at the commencement of May, and proceeds to take up its quarters in cultivated 
valleys, generally nesting in the vicinity of pasture-land. This shrike builds its 
nest in olive-trees and bushes, the nesting materials consisting of leaves of plants, 
grass-stems, and fibres. It lays a pale greenish grey egg, clouded with yellow and 
