^3^ .GREAT, AND BLACK-CROWNED SHRIKE. 



O R D E R 11. PIES. 



IV. SHRIKE. Gen. Birds IV. 



127. Great. Great Shrike, £r. Zm/. i. N" 71. 



Lanius Excubitor, Warfogel, Faun. Suec. N" 80. — Latham, i. l6o. 



White Whilky John, Phil. Tranf. Ixii. 386. 



La Pie-grieche Grife, De Buffon, i. 296, pi. xx. — PI, Enl. 445. — Lev. Mus. 



SWith a black bill and legs : cinereous crown, hind part of the 

 . neck, and back: cheeks white, crofled from the bill with a 

 bar of black : under fide, from chin to tail, white, marked with fe- 

 niicireular lines of a pale brown : lefier coverts black ; thofe on 

 the joints of the wings afh-coior : primaries black, marked with a 

 fingle band of black; fecondaries tipt with white : the tail cuneiform; 

 the two middle feathers black, the tips of the next on each fide 

 white ; on the reft the white prevales, till the exterior, when the 

 black almoft entirely vaniflies : beyond each eye of the female is a 

 brown bar. 

 Pj^^ce. Inhabits North America, from Hud/on s Bay to Louijiana. In 



Hudfons Bay, lives in the woods remote from fliores, and is the firft 

 bird there which brings out its young in the fpring. Makes its neft 

 with dry grafs or bents, and lines it thickly with feathers : lays feven 

 eggs, of a pale blue color, blotched with brown. 



Is frequent in Ruffia, but does not extend to Sibiria ; yet one was 

 taken by our navigators within Bering^ fhraits, in lat. 66, on the 

 JJiatic fide of the Frozen Sea. Has the fame manner of transfixing 

 .and tearing its prey as the Englifo kind. 



128. Black- Cf With the bill, legs, crown, and fides of the head, back, and 

 CROWN E.oj. - • (-Qygj-js of wings, black : primaries black, marked with a fmall 



fpot of white, and another on the ridge of the wing : throat, cheeks, 

 and vent, pure white : breafl: and belly tinged with afh-color : tail 



long; 



