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DascriPTion. 
PLACE, 
13. 
ERECT 
Shr. 
DescripTion, 
PLACE. 
Sab Rp IVa: 
an inch in length, in appearance like the fingular feathers in the 
wing of the Waxen Chatterer, but on a near infpection, are not of 
an horny texture as in that bird, for the webs are perfectly divi- 
fible. 
I met with this bird at Mr. Thomp/on’s, in Little Saint Martin’s 
Lane, London; but without any hiftory of its manners or country 
annexed, 
HIS is a large fpecies, being full twenty-one inches in length 
the bill is ftrong and black: legs lead colour: the plumage in 
general that of the Cinereous Shrike ; but the head andthe whole of the 
neck as far as the breaft are black: the under parts of the body the 
fame as the upper, but very pale, nearly approaching to white : 
quills black: the tail in colour like the body, crofled near the end 
with a broad bar of black, but the very end of it is nearly white. 
Inhabits New Holland, and from its fize feems to approach greatly 
to the Falcox genus. 
‘HE fize of this bird is by no means determined, as it has come 
under our infpection no. otherwife than by means ofa ‘drawine 
both mandibles feem curved towards each other, of a moderate fize, 
and yellow, but no perceivable notch in either: the head and hind part 
of the neck are black: the crown very full of feathers, which when 
carried erect, appears highly crefted: the plumage’ of the body is 
pale green above, and white for the moft part beneath; but the 
breaft and belly incline to yellow: the tail rather long, and dufky, 
and fome of the outer feathers very pale: quills dufky. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
