of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds. 13 
Genus IX. Lawivs. 
1. L. Eacubitor (Great Cinereous Shrike). 
The migrations of this species are uncertain. It has been 
killed in Suffolk in the months of January, April, May, and 
September. And on the 9th of July 1816 we saw a female 
Cinereous Shrike at Baytham in that county, which made a 
noise like that of a pair of shears clipping a fence. We are 
informed by the Rev. George Reading Leathes, that this bird 
has been frequently seen in the Hyde near Bury (a large wood 
on the estate of Sir Thomas Gage), and that he has received a 
specimen shot there. In the autumn of 1819 four of these birds 
were sent to Mr. Hunt, which had been killed in Norfolk. Early 
in December 1819 a Cinereous Shrike frequented a thick thorn 
hedge, near Mr. Hoy's house at Higham, but was so shy that it 
could not be approached within gun-shot. On examining the 
hedge Mr. Hoy found three frogs, and as many mice, spitted on 
the thorns. He therefore set six very small steel traps, each 
baited with a mouse. On the following day two of the traps 
were found sprung, and the baits gone. By watching in con- 
cealment Mr. H. soon afterwards observed the Shrike to dart 
down upon a bait, and rise perpendicularly, but not quick 
enough to escape, as it was caught by two of its toes. ‘The bird 
was carried alive to the house, and placed in a room in which a 
thorn bush was fixed, and some mice given to it: one of which 
it was observed through a hole to spit upon a thorn with the 
greatest quickness and adroitness. : : * 
2. L. Collurio (Red-backed Shrike). 
A nest of this bird, built at Offton, was composed of dried 
grass and green moss, with a few small twigs of the Clematis 
vitalba, and lined with fibres. The eggs of the Red-backed 
Shrike, 
