Class II. WOOD-CHAT. 



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Lanlus minor primus. AUr, 



az). I. 200. 

 Another fort of Butcher Bird. 



JJ''iL orfi, 89. /p. 4. 

 The Wood-chat. Raii fyyi, 



an). 19. fp. 6. 

 Br. Zool. 74. plate C. 2. 

 Dorngreul mit rother platten. 

 Kram. 363. 



IN fize it feems equal to the preceding : the bill De scrip, 

 is horn colored : the feathers that furround the 

 bafe are whitifh ; above is a black line drawn crofs 

 the eyes, and then downwards each fide the neck : 

 the head and hind part of the neck are of a bright 

 bay : the upper part of the back dufky : the co- 

 verts of the tail grey : the fcapulars white : the co- 

 verts of the wings duiky : the quil feathers black, 

 marked towards the bottom with a white fpot : 

 the throat, bread and belly of a yellowifh white. 

 The two middle feathers appear by the drawing 

 to be entirely black : the exterior edges and tips 

 of the reft white : the legs black. 



The female differs: the upper part of head, neck Female. 

 and body are reddifh, ftriated tranfverfely with 

 brown : the lower parts of the body are of a dirty 

 white, rayed with brown : the tail is of a reddifh 

 brown, marked near the end with dulky, and tipt 

 with red. 



Vol. I. 



Strait 



