7 * i. ae 
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OUR WINTER BIRDS. 139 
used to be thought this murderer thus impaled nine cap- 
tives, and no more, so he was christened nine-killer; the 
book-men labelled him Collurio borealis ; we know him as 
the butcher-bird: he is the arctic brother of the shrikes, 
and the boldest, bravest, noblest, and wickedest of his sav- 
age race. 
A SIIRIKE. 
