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county alone, but throughout the kingdom—sacri- 
ficed to the gamekeepers and to the rage for battue- 
shooting. That the game-preserver and his keeper 
are not always doing the best for their own cause by 
the total destruction of these birds I think will 
appear from the short notices I have been able to 
give of the food of the different species, and in some 
cases they are doing absolute mischief to themselves 
as well as to the farmer by this destruction, which 
allows the increase of various insects and animals 
mischievous to both. 
OrDER INSESSORES.— Div. DENTIROSTRES. 
Family LANIADz. 
IT now come to the second great Order, namely, 
the Insessorial, or perching birds. This is by far 
the largest of the five, containing as many as one 
hundred and forty-seven recognized British species ; 
it is itself divided into four Divisions, the first of 
which is the Dentirostres, or soft-billed birds, which 
contains as many as sixty-nine British, out of which 
IT am able to include forty-four Somersetshire spe- 
cies. The Laniade, or Shrikes, come first in order ; 
of these there are three, or perhaps four,* British 
‘species, of which I can include two. 
* See some notes in various numbers of the ‘ Zoologist.’ 
