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DESCRIPTION. 
Sie Ry os 2: 
ENGTH i five inches: bill black; crown the fame; forehead 
white, paffing in a line beneath the eye on each fide, to the hind- 
head ; hind part of the neck, and from thence to the rump, black, 
more or lefs {potted or mixed with white; but the feathers of the 
back in general have the ends white, margined with black: wings 
black ; on the middle of the coverts a large triangular rufous white 
patch ; fome of the middle fecondary quills are outwardly marked 
with the fame, making, when the wings are opened, a longitudinal 
patch: under parts of the body white, ftreaked with ferruginous on 
the fides, breaft, and belly: tail black; two or more of the outer 
feathers white at the ends, and the outermoft of all white on the middle 
of the outer margin: legs brown. 
Inhabits 4frica: communicated by Mr. Walcot. 
La Pie-griefche rouge a plaftron blanc, Levail. Oy it. p. 55. pl. 65. 
HIS is nearly the fize of a Blackbird: the length about ten and an 
half or eleven inches, of which the tail, which is long and cuneiform, 
occupies full half: the bill and legs are dufky: the head, hind pare. 
of the neck, back, fcapulars, and wings in general brown black: the 
throat and under parts of the boay are of a fine red, growing yel- 
Jowifh or much paler on the vent, not unlike in colour thofe parts in. 
the Barbary Shrike, which it alfo approaches in the fize and fhape of 
the bill; acrofs the breaft is a broad bar ‘of white, as alfoa kind | 
of ftreak or whifker of white on each under jaw, from: the gape of 
the bill: the tail is greatly cuneiform in fhape, the longeft or middle 
feather being five inches long, and the outer one an. inch and three- 
quarters, the intermediate ones leffeninz in equal proportions ; the 
whole of the tail is compofed of ten feathers, of a lively red plain ca- 
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