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beak is hooked, of a deep blue. The eyes are bright and fpark- 

 ling; the iris of a hazel-colour, the pupil black. On the throat 

 is a yellowifli-white ring, encircling the head like a coronet. 

 The whole upper part of the body is of a dufky yellowifti-red 

 ground, variegated with black and a deep greyifh-blue. The 

 breaft and belly are a yellowifli-whitc, with brown linear fpots. 

 The train is variegated with fourteen zones of black and a 

 brownifli white j only ten of thefe zones in the male or tarcel. 

 The legs are yellow ; the claws of & gloffy black. Age, as in 

 all other birds, alters the colours in this ; the variegations on 

 the upper part vanifhing to a dufky blue. It is very deftruclive 

 to the game, at which it flies with molt amazing courage and 

 celerity, giving them a mortal wound in the neck, with one in- 

 ftantaneous ftroke. 



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9. We have the great afh-coloured Shrieke or Butcher-Bird (m) 

 in mountainous thorny thickets, and among furz. It is of the 

 lize of a blackbird. The beak is black, hooked at the point, 

 with a denticle on each fide, as in the Keftrel and Sparroiv-Haivk. 

 The tongue is bifid or furcated at the end. The noftrils are 

 roundifh, covered with many black, fhort, rigid fet& or bridles 

 like whifkers. About the eyes and auricles is an oblong lift of 

 black. The head, back, and wings are of a bluim-grey. The 

 fail-feathers are tipped with white, the outer ones fhorteft. The 

 throat, breaft, and belly are of a paler colour than the upper 

 part, with a few dufky fpots or undulating lines on the throat. 

 The train, legs, feet, and claws are black ; the outer toe joined 



(m) Lanius cinereus major. Will. Orn. p. 55. t. 10. Raj. Av. p. 18. n. 3. Lanio AD- 

 CER-BiRD. Charlet. Av. 72. n. 13. 



Ampelis cserulefcens, alis caudaquc nigricantibus. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 68. n. 181. 



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