20th to the 25th of April, and takes up its

rives in Savoy in pairs from the
namely, the borders of damp

ntends to breed and pass the summer,
e neighbourhood, the great trees bordering the roads, parks,
1 cultivated fields, and marshes interspersed with high
he trees, rarely among the bushes, even the

Bailly informs us that it ‘ar
quarters at once in the places where 1t 1
and on the mountains in th

woods in the plains
ith copses, thorn-bushes 11

and all situations clothed w
trees. Towards the middle of May it constructs its nest in t
In its actions and manners it resembles the Great Grey Shrike, but is less mistrustful than that
i ir irds qui 2 ie heir kind to live alone
bird. At the pairing-season, when most monogamous birds quit the society of t kK e alone,
s of five, six, or more, which pursue and peck each other reciprocally
5 ee Geo eB : : 5 : : 4 » branch of the same tree.”
without inflicting any myury, and, the game being over, repose all together oe the ae of the al tree
Mr. Howard Saunders informs me that during his recent visit to Andalucia, he did not observe it in that
On the other hand Lord Lilford states that it is not uncommon there, that it is ‘‘ a rare summer
where he “obtained three specimens in May, 1858,” and says it is ‘* abundant

higher ones.

this species assembles in small partie

province.
visitor to the island of Corfu,”
in Montenegro in August.”

In Mr. W. H. Simpson’s
Ibis’ for 1860, that gentleman remarks :—

«A stray pair of Blackbird and Song-Thrush,
the foot of the unscaled precipices of Mount Varassovo in winter, may remain behind to breed; but the duties
of the sylvan chorus are performed by ‘nnumerable warblers, which, however, prefer the bushy outskirts
and shun the depths of the forest, as does also the conspicuous Lanius minor, which, next to the Woodchat,
is the commonest Shrike of Greece.”

The food consists of insects of various orders, small birds, shrewmice, &c.

The adult male has the forehead, lores, space above and below the eye, and the ear-coverts black ;
occiput, nape, and back ash-grey ; wings black ; a spot or speculum of white at the base of the primaries ;
outer tail-feather, on each side, white, the next white, with a fine line of black along the shaft, the third
white, with a large spot of black near the tip, the fourth with a larger black spot, and the four middle
feathers entirely black ; under surface white, with a wash of rose-pink on the chest and flanks ; bill and feet
black.

The female is similar in her general colouring ; but the black on the head is duller, that on the wings of

« Ornithological Notes from Mesolonghi and Southern #tolia,” published in ‘The

out of the flocks that frequent the delta of the Phidaris at

a browner tint, and the roseate hue of the flanks is paler.
The young of the year of both sexes are without the black band on the forehead, that part during the first
winter being of a dull ash-grey; after the spring moult the black band and the roseate tint begin to appear.
The Plate represents a male and a female, of the size of life, on a branch of a kind of wild Bullace,
gathered by myself at Barton, in Bedfordshire.

y)

hr