. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LANIID^. 149. THE LESSER GREY SHRIKE. Lanius minor, J. F. Gmelin. The Lesser Grey Shrike is an annual summer-visitor to the southern and central portions of Europe, and, on migration, it occasionally wanders to England. Early in November 1851, a female was killed in the Scilly Islands; in the spring of 1869 an adult was received by the Rev. Murray A. Mathew from Great Yarmouth, where another was taken in May 1875 ; on September 23rd 1876, a bird of the year, identified by the late Mr. Gatcombe, was taken alive near Plymouth; the Rev. M. A. Mathe
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LANIID^. 149. THE LESSER GREY SHRIKE. Lanius minor, J. F. Gmelin. The Lesser Grey Shrike is an annual summer-visitor to the southern and central portions of Europe, and, on migration, it occasionally wanders to England. Early in November 1851, a female was killed in the Scilly Islands; in the spring of 1869 an adult was received by the Rev. Murray A. Mathew from Great Yarmouth, where another was taken in May 1875 ; on September 23rd 1876, a bird of the year, identified by the late Mr. Gatcombe, was taken alive near Plymouth; the Rev. M. A. Mathew has recorded (Zool. 1894, p. 345) the discovery of an adult, which had been shot at Heron Court in September 1842; and Mr. F. W. Frohawk states (Field, p. 839) that he identified one with binoculars in Mid-Kent on May isth 1897. It is doubtful if the Lesser Grey Shrike has occurred in the south of Sweden or in Denmark; while it is distinctly rare on passage in Heligoland, and only less so in Holland, Belgium and the north of France. Eastward, it is not uncommon along the southern shores of the Baltic, and has even wandered to Finland; while in the south it is generally distributed over Europe as far west as the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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