GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 



INSESSORES. 



DEtiTIROSTRES. 



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LANIAD^E. 





GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius excubitor. 

 Lanius excubitor, Great Grey Shrike, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 272. 



Cinereous 



Ash-coloured 



Cinereous 



Great 



Cinereous 



Great 

 Pie-grieche grise, 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 75. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 62. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 148. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 95. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 142. 



LANIUS. Generic Characters. Bill short, thick and straight at the base, 

 compressed ; upper mandible hooked at the point, with a prominent tooth ; 

 base of the bill beset with hairs directed forwards. Nostrils basal, lateral, 

 oval. Wings of moderate size ; the first quill-feather shorter than the 

 second, the third the longest. Tarsus longer than the middle toe ; feet 

 with three toes before, one behind the outer united at its base to the 

 middle toe. 



THE second ORDER of Birds, the INSESSORES, or Perch- 

 ing Birds, includes a much greater number of species than 

 either of the other four primary divisions or orders of the 



