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particular note, nor could the food be exaétly determined, but in three 
which he opened were found the remains of infects, 
Lanius Tyrannus, Ind. Orz. i. p. 81. 53.—Bartram’s Trav. p. 287. 
Tyrant Shrike, Gen. Sy. i. p. 184. 37- 
N a letter from Mr. Adbot, of Georgia, he obferves the following 
circumftance : “* A Tyrant Shrike having built its neft on the 
* outfide of a large lofty pine, 1 was one day confidering how I 
*¢ fhould procure the eggs, when viewing the neft, I perceived a 
* Crow light on the branch, break and fuck the eggs, and difplace 
“ the neft, appearing all the while unconcerned, notwith{tanding 
_ © both the cock and hen continued flying at, and ftriking it with 
« their bills all the while, but as foon as the crow had completed 
“ the robbery it departed. The eggs are flefh coloured, prettily 
 fpotted at the larger end with dark pink, and a few black {pots.” 
SIZE uncertain: bill large and blueifh: lore ferruginous: head, 
hind part of the neck, and fides beneath the eye brown; back 
and wings the fame: under parts of the body not unlike the upper, 
but clouded with white: tail longifh: legs dufky. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
LENGTH eight inches: bill and legs yellow; general colour of 
the plumage dufky afh: the tail is cuneiform, the two middle 
feathers three inches and a half Jong, and the fhorteft or outmoft 
two inches; but what moft beautifully diftinguifhes this bird from 
others is, that all the feathers of the rump, and fome of the upper 
tail coverts, have a dafh of fine crimfon at the ends, for one third of 
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