SHRIKE, fS2. 



pretty much forked, and the outer feather fpotted with dirty 



white : legs and claws blackifh. 



Inhabits Bengal, where it is called Eingab. It is called alfo by Place anit 



the Indians the King of the Crows, from its purfuing thefe birds 



from place to place with a great noife,.,and pecking them on the 



Back till they efcape„. 



CHESTNUT- 

 BACKED 

 S. 



T ENGTH eleven inches. Bill black : forehead black brown : Descriptions 



through the eye and over the eye-brow the fame : the crown, 



nape, and hind part of the neck r quite to the back, afh-colour : 



beginning of the back pale cheftnut : the wings for the moft part 



Black ; the fecondaries margined with ferruginous : throat dufky 



white ; the reft of the under parts quite white : tail black, very 



cuneiform ; the two outer feathers ihorter by two inches than the 



middle onesj the two middle ones are ferruginous juft at the 



tips, the reft more and more fo as they proceed outwardly ; 



the outer one on each fide almoft wholly ferruginous: the legs 



are black. 



A- fine fpecimen is in Dr. Hunter's Mufemn; but not known. 



from whence it came. 



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