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THE LEVERIAN SHRIKE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



BiLi ftrait, hooked only at the end, near the end of the upper mandible 



a fharp procefs. 

 Nostrils round, covered with ftifF briftles. 

 Tongue jagged at the end. 

 Toes divided to the origin. 

 Tail cuneiform. Ptmant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Shrike with cuneiform tail ; body varied with black and white ; tlie tips 

 of all the tail-feathers white. 



Magpie Shrike. 



Lath, Syn i. p, 192. 



IT is entirely in compliance with the opinion of Mr. Latham that the 

 very rare and curious bird here reprefentcd is placed under the genus 

 Lanius, though not perhaps accurately correfponding in all particulars with the 

 charadters of that genus. It is a fpecies whofe hiftory and native country 

 are not certainly known, and was never noticed by any ornithological writer 

 'till Mr. Latham introduced it into his Synopfis of Birds, under the title of 

 the Magpie Shrike ; a name by no means ill adapted to the appearance of 



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