Gould wrote 'Some ornithologists believe that Britain has, from time to time, been visited by two, if not three, kinds of Grey Shrike... Mr Rodd, of Penzance, has an undoubted specimen...killed at Scilly, and it may have occurred in other parts of our island.'

A life-size male and female are depicted on 'a branch of a kind of Bullace, gathered by myself at Barton, Bedfordshire.'

DISTRIBUTION: Breeds from France and Germany eastwards to Turkestan and Afghanistan. Winters Africa south of the Sahara. Rare vagrant to Britain, mainly on east coast and on Shetland, in spring and autumn