Barbary, or yellow-crowned Shrike.
Family Laniadæ. Sub-family Thamnophilinæ. Nob.
Generic Character.
Swains. in Zool. Journ. 3. p. 163.
Specific Character.
Above glossy black, beneath crimson; crown fulvous yellow: vent and flanks buff.
Lanius barbarus. Linn. Icon. Pl. Enl. 56.
Laniarius barbarus. Ency. Meth. Orn. p. 755.