. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excuhitor) theouter webs of the primaries are white at the base, and thus,when the wing is closed, a white bar is formed across thepart formed by the primaries. In Pallass Grey Shrike{Lanius major) exactly the same occurs, so that, so far as theprimaries are concerned, there is no difference in the twospecies. When we come to look at the secondaries, we shall,however, find that in Lanius excu
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excuhitor) theouter webs of the primaries are white at the base, and thus,when the wing is closed, a white bar is formed across thepart formed by the primaries. In Pallass Grey Shrike{Lanius major) exactly the same occurs, so that, so far as theprimaries are concerned, there is no difference in the twospecies. When we come to look at the secondaries, we shall,however, find that in Lanius exculitor the bars of their out-side webs are also white, so that two white patches or barsare formed on the wings, whilst in L. major, there is nowhite at the base of the outside webs of the secondaries, 1 A most interesting account of this method of taking wild Falcons is givenin The Field newspaper of 16th Feb. and 16th March 1878, 126 THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE. SO that only one white bar or patch is formed on thewing. ^ The Great Grey Shrike has not been ascertained to breedin Great Britain. 1 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, Session 1881-82, vol. vii,pp. 223, •IM L PASSERES, ( 127 ) LANIID^. THE EED-BACKED SHRIKE. BUTCHER BIRD, MURDERING PIE, FRENCH MAGPIE, FLUSHER. Lanius coUurio. The Mayfly is torn by the Swallow, the Sparrow is speared by the Shrike,And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey. Tennyson. This bird appears to have been very seldom observed inBerwickshire, although it is a well-known and regularsummer visitor to various districts in England. The Eev. John Duns, Torphichen, in a communicationto the Koyal Society of Edinburgh, mentions the occurrenceof two specimens at Oxendean, near Duns Castle, in July1859 ; ^ and Dr. TurnbuU relates that Lord Binning saw amale on the farm of Byre walls, near Gordon, in the autumnof The Eed-Backed Shrike visits England about the end ofApril or beginning of May, where it breeds. It
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