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prey, though fmall, its food infects, fuch as beetles and grafs- 
hoppers, which it not only caught with.great dexterity, but likewife 
when it could not confume them all, it would ftick them on the pales 
of farm yards, till it had occafion for them. It alfo caught fparrows 
and canary birds, but did not devour more of them than the brains.” 
Mr. Levaillant afcertains likewife this laft fact, and gives a figure 
of the young as well as the adult bird. He adds alfo, that it is 
found in Senegal, and in all the interior parts of Africa, and that it is 
not a variety of our Great Shrike, differing in the quills, of which 
this laft has fifteen marked with white, in the Collared Shrike only 
feven ; alfo in the Great Shrike, the tail feathers are twice as broad as 
in the Fi/cal. 
Lanius Collurio, Ind. Orn. i. p. 69. 11.—Spalow/k. Vog. 2. tab. 5. 
Pie-griefche rouffe, Darnegas, Hi?. Prov. ii. p. 335. 
L’Ecorcheur male, & de jeune age; Levail). Oif. ii. p. 50. pl. 69. 
Red-backed Skrike, Gez. Syz. i, p: 167. 25.——Jd. Sup. p. §2. 
HIS is common in Egypt, and called there Daguouffe, caught in 
large numbers alive in nets, and are fold alive, as well as all 
thofe birds which the law forbids to be ftrangled, and which muft 
not be ufed for food till they have been bled; but as thefe fhrikes 
are very vicious, and cruelly nip the fingers, the bird catchers take 
care to tie together the two ends of their beak, with one of their 
feathers *; they are alfo frequently met with in Africa, about the 
Cape of Good Hope, and other parts. 
© Sonsini, Trav, ii p. 319. 
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