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at the bottom of the middle one by a membrane. It is a very 

 timourous and fhy bird, wary to.efcape danger, ufually fitting 

 on the bufhes with its tail erect. It makes its neft of the heath 

 and tnofs-herbage, and lines it with wool, and the downy parts 

 of plants. It preys upon beetles, and their hexapod-worms, and 

 grafshoppers. With the cruelty of a coward it feizes upon the 

 young of other birds in the neft. It adventures alfo on the pa- 

 rents, particularly the little harmlefs fong-birds, wantonly mur- 

 dering many of them before it taftes one, which made the fal- 

 coners, who fometimes trained it to take larks, Sec. call it the 

 murdering Pie ; and the common people in DerbyJJnre*^ 

 and CheJJjire f, the Wierangle, from the German name 

 i. e. \\\z fuffocating Angel. 



10. We have the q/Jj-coloured Shrieke, or Butcher-Bird (n), in the 

 fame mountainous parts. It is of the fize of a Bulfnch. The 

 head is large, the beak black, and the tip hooked, with two 

 angular appendages or denticles, without cafes or cavities to re- 

 ceive them. The tongue is divided at the extremity into many 

 parts, hairy, as is its receptacle, the palate. There are black 

 fliff briftles about the noftrils as in the larger fpecies. About the 

 eyes and auricles is an oblong black lift, and another above it 

 of white. The head and rump are hoary ; the middle of the 

 back, and the middle feries of the fmall feathers on the wings 

 of a duiky greyifh-red. The fail-feathers are blackifli, fpotted 



* Hill. Hift. of Birds. t Cbarlet. Av. 



(n) Lanius tertius. Will. Orn. 54. Icon mala. Lanius minor mfus, f. tertius Ar. r>s. 

 Raj. Av. p. 1 8. Marto:'* Ncrthampt. t. 13. f. 5. Mai'ii, et, f. 6. Pa-inln. Icon opt, 

 Ampelis dorfo grifeo macula ad oculos longitudinali. Linn. Fiun. Su;c. p. 68. n. 18, 



Lanius minor (Foemina). Raj. Av. p. 19. n. 5. 



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