B A R B E T. 497 



Bucco capenlis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 168. N° i. 3. 



Le Barbu, Brif. orn. iv. p. 92. N° 1. pi. 6. f. 2. COLLARED 



Le Tamatia a collier, Buf. cif. vii. p. 97. pi. 4. 

 Barbu a collier de Cayenne, PL enl. 395. 



B. 



CIZE of the Red-backed Shrike: length feven inches and a Description. 



quarter. The bill is nearly an inch and a half in length, 

 horn-coloured, and bent at the tip ; the gape reaching beneath 

 the eyes : the upper part of the head, the nape, and hind part of 

 the neck, are rufous, ftriated with fine lines of black : the fides of 

 the head plain rufous : at the lower part of the neck, between 

 that and the back, is a narrow fulvous band, which extends for- 

 wards towards the neck, on each fide ; this is accompanied by a 

 narrower one of black, which unites to a broader one on the 

 breaft ; beyond this, the back, wings, and rump, are rufous, 

 ftriated with black: the throat and fore part of the neck are 

 dirty white: on the breaft is a broad band of black; from 

 thence to the vent rufous white: the tail is rufous, two inches 

 and a quarter in length, and crofted with narrow bars of black ; 

 the fix middle feathers are equal in length ; the three others on 

 each fide fhorter by degrees to the outer one, which is the 

 ftiorteft of all : the legs and claws are afh-coloured. 



This is found at Guiana, where it is not common. Place, 



There can be no doubt of this being the bird meant by Lin- 

 naeus, fince he refers to the one in BrijJ'on above quoted ; yet he 

 ■makes his bird an inhabitant of Africa. He likewife adds, that 

 ' it had only ten tail feathers. The reader muft reconcile this to 

 •himfelf ; for I cannot account for the difagreement, efpecially as 

 the bird above defcribed is of American origin. 



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