SYNOPSIS AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 
OF SOME OF THE BIRDS MENTIONED 
1. BUTCHER-BIRD, OR RED-BACKED SHRIKE 
(Pages 110-112) 
Lanius collurio, one of the shrike family, which have 
the bill hooked more or less. Shrike said to be from 
the shriek-like notes of some of the species. (There 
are other shrikes, rare stragglers in Great Britain.) 
Lanius, Lat., a butcher. -Collurio, Lat., an old book 
name for a kind of thrush (? fieldfare) and afterwards 
applied to the shrike. Syn.: Nine Killer, the bird was 
believed by country folk to kill nine victims before 
devouring them! Also: Cheeter, Flesher, Jack Baker. 
Whisky John (local names). Found: Chiefly in the 
south. A robust-looking bird of a grey and reddish 
colour. Somewhat larger than a sparrow. Length: 
7 inches. Haunts: Wooded districts, quarries, chalk- 
pits, etc. Habits: Sits on rather high prominent 
perches from which it darts at insects, etc., and returns 
to same perch (like the flycatcher, see Part II, p. 175), 
and turns its head from side to side, and jerks its tail. 
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