LESSER GREY SHRIKE. a^i 



condaries black, tipt with dirty white ; primaries black : bread and 

 belly light afh-color : tail black ; ends of the outmoft feathers white. 

 Much larger than N° 1 27.} the common Great Shrike ; and differs 

 fpeclfically. 



Inhabits Ruffia, but is more frequent in Sibiria ; where it lives in the Place; 



ibrefts the whole winter. Taken and tamed by the fowlers j and kept 

 by the Ruffians for the diverfion it affords in the manner of killing 

 its prey. They flick a rod with a Iharp point into the wall of a 

 room, on which the Shrike perches. They turn loofe a fmall bird, 

 which the former inflantly feizes by the throat, ftrangles, and then 

 fpits it on the point of the ilick, drawing it on with its claws and 

 bill. Thus it ferves as many as are turned -to it, and afterwards eats 

 ■them, thus fufpended, at its leifure *. The Germans ilyle it IVurch- 

 Mngel, or the Suffocating- angel. The old Englijh, JVariangel, which fig- 

 nifies a bird of fome very mifchievous qualities j as is evideat 

 from Chaucjsr. 



This Sompnour, which that was as ful of jangles, ' 

 As ful of venime ben thife IVariangUs f. 



B. Lesser Grey, Pie Grieche <^'//«//>, De Buffbn, i. z^^.—'Pl. Enl. ^z. 



O With the forehead black : a black line crofTes the eyes, like as 

 in the former : head, hind part and fides of the neck, back, and 

 coverts of wings, cinereous, paleft on the rump : ridge of the wing 

 white : primaries black, with a white fpot near the bafe ; fecondaries 

 black, tipt with white : throat white : breaft and belly tinged with 

 rofe-color : tail marked like the preceding. 



Inhabits Ruffia, but not S-ibiria. Found in Italy and Spain. Place. 



* Edwards, Gl. p. 233. 



t The Freres tale. Fulo/wnime, becaufe it was believed, that the thorn on which 

 ■3t ftuck its prey was venomous. 



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