Class II. RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 



215 



with a broad white bar ; and except the four firft 

 feathers, and the fame number of thofe next the 

 body, are tipt with white : the tail confifts of 

 twelve feathers of unequal lengths, the middle 

 being the longeft ; the two middlemoft are black, 

 the next on each fide tipt with white, and in the 

 reft the white gradually increafes to the outmoft, 

 where that color has either entire pofTeflion, or there 

 remains only a fpot of black : the cheeks are white, 

 but crofTed from the bill to the hind part of the 

 head with a broad black ftroke : the throat, 

 breaft and belly are of a dirty white : the legs are 

 black. The female is of the fame color with the 

 male, the breaft and belly excepted, which are 

 marked tranfverfely with numerous femicircular 

 brown lines. 



Tail. 



Cheeks. 



La petite Pie griefche grife. 



Belon a'v. 1 28. 

 Lanius tertius. AUir. a'v. I. 



199- 

 Lefler Butcher Bird, called in 



Torkjhire Flufher. Wil orn. 



88. fp. 2. the male, 89. 



fp. 'i- t\it female, 

 Raii Jyn. a<v. 18. 

 Danijh Tornlkade. A'ori/. 



Hantvark. Br. 23. 

 Mort. Northampt. 424. 



L'Ecorcheur. Briffhn a'v. II. 



151. 

 Pl.EnL 31. f. z.Hift.d'Oys, 



I. 304. ^ 

 Lanius coUurio. Lz;?.j/>y?. 136. 

 Faun.Suec. 81. Tab. I[. f. 81. 

 Dorngreul, Dornheher. Kram. 



363- 

 Bufferoia, Ferlotta rofia. Z/- 



nan^ 91. 

 Br. Zocl. 74. plate C. i. 

 Mali Skrakoper. Scopoli^ 



No. 19. 



rz. Red- 

 backed. 



THE male weighs two ounces; the female Descrip. 

 two ounces two drams. The length of the 



former 



