OUR WINTER BIRDS. 



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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. 



