. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . uph, pi. 18, f. 3. 168 Lantus. (Linnet »■; MASKED SHRIKE. Lanius personatus, nubicus, leiicomotopon,Leucomefopon Nuhicum, Pie-Griec/te niasquee, Temminck. LlCHSTENSTEIN; Cat: Mus: Berlin, 1823. Count Muhle, 1844. Bonaparte. Capt. Loche; Cat: desMam., et des Ois:Observe en Algerie,1858. Supplementary-list, p. the French. Specific Characters.—Wings with a rather lengthened bastardquill feather, marked with a white spot. First quill feather longerthan the fifth; tail lon
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . uph, pi. 18, f. 3. 168 Lantus. (Linnet »■; MASKED SHRIKE. Lanius personatus, nubicus, leiicomotopon,Leucomefopon Nuhicum, Pie-Griec/te niasquee, Temminck. LlCHSTENSTEIN; Cat: Mus: Berlin, 1823. Count Muhle, 1844. Bonaparte. Capt. Loche; Cat: desMam., et des Ois:Observe en Algerie,1858. Supplementary-list, p. the French. Specific Characters.—Wings with a rather lengthened bastardquill feather, marked with a white spot. First quill feather longerthan the fifth; tail long and sloped, with the most lateral quillfeather white, shaft black; the following one also white; innerfeather with the shaft and edges black. Length nineteen centimetres (seven inches and a half.)—Deg-land. Length six inches and one-sixth, (Paris.)—Muhle. This bird appears to have been first described byLichstenstein, in bis Catalogue of Duplicate Birds inthe Museum of Berlin, and published in 1823, underthe name of Lanius nubicus. It was subsequently dis-. i MASKED SHRIKE. 169 covered in Greece, and described as a new species byCount Von der Miihle, in 1844, under the name ofLanius leucomotopon. It was first figured by Temminck as L. personatus,which name was adopted by Schlegel, in his Revue,in 1844, and which I retain in deference to the natu-ralist whose system of classification I have genius of the late Prince of Canino, so fertile inadding to our list of names, called it Leucometoponnubicum, erecting a new genus upon the specific nameof Count Miihle. Ornithologists must not therefore beconfounded in finding the Lanius personatus of 1844,and the Leucomotopon nubicum of Loches list ofAfrican birds in 1858, the same. And yet it is, and was, and ever will be, a ButcherLira1, having all the characters and habits of the well-marked genus Lanius. The Masked Shrike is an inhabitant of Greece, Nubia,Algeria, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Egypt. We are indebtedfor
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