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LANIUS COLLURIO. THE RED-BACKED 

 SHRIKE. 



RED-BACKED BUTCHER-BIRD. FLUSHER. 



Fig. 253. 



Lanius Collurio. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 136. 



Lanius Cullurio. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 69. 



Red-backed Shrike. Mont, Orn. Diet. 



Pie-griecbe Ecorcheur. Lanius Collurio. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 147. 



Red-backed Shrike. Lanius Collurio. Selb. lllustr. I. 150. 



Lanius Collurio. Red-backed Shrike. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 96. 



Male li'ltli the hack and iciag-coverts hroiL'nish-red^ the croicn 

 of the head, hind-neck, and rump ash-grey, the breast and sides 

 rose-coloured, a broad band of black from the bill to behind the 

 ear ; tail tchite, towards the end blackish-broicn, of which colour 

 are the two middle feathers. Female with the upper parts red- 

 dish-hroim, the hind-neck tinged icith greg ; the lower parts greg- 

 ish-ichite, transverselg undidcUed tcith diiskg. 



Male. — Tlie Red-backed Shrike, which is about the size of 

 the Corn Bunting, and of a compact form, has the body mo- 

 derately full ; the head rather large ; the bill short, stout, con- 

 siderably compressed, its outlines convex, the tip of the upper 

 mandible deflected, the notch and dentiform process distinct, 



