TORK-TAILED
CRESTED
SHRIKE.
DXS dUPTlQ-N.
¥ E-MALE,
i* L ACE.
FORK-TAILED - g#
jD E S C R I P T IO N .
'Lanins forficatus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 1^4, N° i.
Le Grand Gobe-mouche noir hupe de Madagafcar, Bri/. ii. p, 388. N0 16.
pi. 37. f.4.
Le Drongo, Buf, oif. iv. p, 586.
,Gobe-mouche hupe de Madagafcar, PL ml. 189.
g I Z E of a Blackbird; length ten inches. Bill black; at the
angles of the mouth a few flender bridles,: general colour of
{the plumage greenidv black-: on the forehead, juft over the bill,
is a creft Handing upright, near an inch and three quarters in
length: tail black, long, and greatly forked^ edged with greenilh
black : legs and claws black.
It is not always-furnifhed with a creft; when that,is the cafe,
fuch fpecimen may probably be taken for a female.
Inhabits Madagafcar, China, and the Cape -of Good Hope; from
the laft place is one now in the colledlion of Sir J o f Banks.
Xanius cærulefcens, Lin Syf. -i. p. 134, N° 2.
La Pie-griefche-à queue fourchue de Eengale, Brif. om. ii. p. ,i%g. N° 22.
.LeFingah, Buf. oif. i, p. 308. -
Tork-tailed Indian jButcher-Rird, .Bd<w. j . pi. ,56.
T E N G lS f feven inches and a half: fize of the a Hi-coloured
Shrike. Bill blackifh brown, and.bent,; the upper mandible
befet with black hairs turning forwards,: plumage on the upper
parts of.the body fine black, with a glofs o f blue, and in fome
.lights green ; under parts white: breaft dark alh-colour, inclining
»to Black.: the greater quills and tail ferruginous black.: tail
pretty
pretty much forked, and the outer feather fpotted with dirty
white: legs and claws blackifh.
Inhabits Bengal, where it is called Fingab. It is called alfo by
the Indians the King of the Crows, from its purfuing thefe birds
from place to place with a great noife, and pecking them on the
back till they efcape^
J ^ENGTH eleven inches. Bill black: forehead black brown:
through the eye and over the eye-brow the fame : the crown,,
nape, and hind part of the neck, quite to the back, alh-colour :
beginning of the back pale cheftnut:. the wings for the moft part
black; the fecondaries-margined with ferruginous : throat dulky
white; the reft of the under parts-quite white : tail black, very
cuneiform; the two outer feathers lhorter by two inches than the
middle ones;- the two middle ones are ferruginous juft at the
tips, the reft more and more fo as- they proceed outwardly t-
the outer one on each fide almoft wholly ferruginous: the legs
are black.
A, fine fpecimen is in Dr. Hunter's Mufeum-, but, not known
from whence, it came.
Place and
Manners.
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CHESTNUT—
BACKED
S.
D escription..
Lanius