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Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach) has dark mask through the eye is broad and covers the forehead in most subspecies and the whole head is black in subspecies tricolor and nasutus. The tail is narrow and graduated with pale rufous on the outer feathers. Subspecies erythronotus has the grey of the mantle and upper back suffused with rufous while the southern Indian caniceps has pure grey. A small amount of white is present at the base of the primaries. The bay-backed shrike is smaller and more contrastingly patterned and has a more prominent white patch on the wing. The sexes are alike in plumage. They all have a long and narrow black tail, have a black mask and forehead, rufous rump and flanks and a small white patch on the shoulder.
Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach) has dark mask through the eye is broad and covers the forehead in most subspecies and the whole head is black in subspecies tricolor and nasutus. The tail is narrow and graduated with pale rufous on the outer feathers. Subspecies erythronotus has the grey of the mantle and upper back suffused with rufous while the southern Indian caniceps has pure grey. A small amount of white is present at the base of the primaries. The bay-backed shrike is smaller and more contrastingly patterned and has a more prominent white patch on the wing. The sexes are alike in plumage. They all have a long and narrow black tail, have a black mask and forehead, rufous rump and flanks and a small white patch on the shoulder.