. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . nd therefore may belong to Lanius borealis or Lanius lu-dovicianus. The same error has been committed by MrGould, in his figures of both Lanius meridionalis and LaniusExcubitor. Having examined the bird in a fresh state aswell as stuffed and in skin, I am qualified to say that whenthe wing is closed, as represented by these authors, two con-tig
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . nd therefore may belong to Lanius borealis or Lanius lu-dovicianus. The same error has been committed by MrGould, in his figures of both Lanius meridionalis and LaniusExcubitor. Having examined the bird in a fresh state aswell as stuffed and in skin, I am qualified to say that whenthe wing is closed, as represented by these authors, two con-tiguous patches of white are seen, one on the bases of theprimaries, the other at those of the secondaries. Fig. 250. All the species above mentioned vary considerably in sum-mer, the lower parts being then of a purer white, the trans-verse lines entirely wanting, the tips of the feathers being wornoff, the upper parts paler, the wings and tail more browned,and the white on the tips of the quills and tail-feathers more orless obliterated by wearing, so that many of these feathers arcblack at the end; and the difference appears very striking whennew feathers are coming in among the old. 502 LANIUS RUTILUS. THE WOODCHAT SHRIKE. WOODCHAT. WOOD Fig. 252. Lanius rutilus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 70. Woodchat. Mont. Orn. Diet. Woodshrike. Supp. Pie-grieche rousse. Lanius rufus. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 147. Woodchat. Lanius rufus. Selb. Illustr. I. 153. Lanius rufus. Woodchat. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 96. Male with the upper part of the head and the hind-neck brown-ish-red, the back black, the scapulars ichite, the rump grey, thewings black, the base of the primaries and the tips of the secon-daries white, the tail black excepting the outer feathers, the basalhalf of the next and its tip, with those of the rest, which arewhite; a brand black frontal band, margined anteriorly withwhite; a black cheek-band; the lower parts white. Femalewith the head and neck didl red; the back brownish-black, th
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