Plate LVII. Male and Female.
Third quill longest, fourth scarcely shorter, second and sixth equal;
tail rather long, graduated; bill black, upper parts deep leaden-grey,
lower greyish-white, the sides bluish-grey; a streak of whitish over
the eye, and margining the forehead; loral space, and a patch behind
the eye, black; posterior scapulars almost entirely white; quills and
coverts black, secondaries narrowly tipped with white; bases of
primaries white, forming a conspicuous patch on the extended wing;
tail-feathers black, all except the middle pair white at the end, that
colour occupying nearly two-thirds of the outer, and gradually
diminishing on the rest. Female with the plumage somewhat darker.
Young brownish-white beneath, the breast and sides transversely barred
with dark grey.
_Male_, 8-1/2, 13.
From Louisiana to Carolina, laterally to the Columbia River, and
northward to the Fur Countries. Abundant. Resident in the south.
Migratory in the north.
Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius Carolinensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iii. p. 57.
Lanius ludovicianus, Bonap. Syn. p. 72.
Lanius Excubitorides, American Grey Shrike, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 115.
Loggerhead Shrike, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 261.
Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius Ludovicianus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 300; v. v. p. 300.