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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



LANIAD^. 



LANIADJF,. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius excubitor. 



Lanius excubitor. Great Shrike, 

 Cinereous 



Ash-coloured 



Cinereous 



Great 



Cinereous 



Great 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 272. 

 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, pt. ii. 



Pie-grie.che arise, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 142. 



LANIUS. Generic characters. Bill short, thick and straight at the base, com- 

 pressed ; 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 be- 

 hind ; the outer united at its base to the middle toe. 



THE second ORDER of Birds, the INSESSORES, or Perching 

 Birds, includes a much greater number of species than 

 either of the other four primary divisions or Orders of the 



