i£o SHRIKE. 



+r GREAT Lanius excubitor, Liu. Syji. i. p. 135. N° 1 i.— Scop. ann. i. p. 23. N° x%, 



CINEREOUS —Midler, p. \\.—Brun. 21, 2Z. 



S. La pie-griefche grife, Brif. om. ii. p. 141. N° i.—Buf. oif. i. p. 296. pi, 



20 . — PL enl. 445 . 

 Neun-toeder, Fri/ch. t. 60. M. andF.—Kram. p. 364. 

 Caftrica palombina, 0//». uccel. t. 41. 

 Greater Butcher-Bird, or Mzttzgek, Raii fyn. p. 18. A. 3.— Will. era. p, 



87. pi. 10. — Albin. ii. pi. 13. 

 Great Shrike, Br. Zool. vol. i. N° 71. pi. ^.—Catejb. Car. app. p. 36.— 

 Jmer. Zool. N° 



.#>•. Ma/". Lev. Mttf. 



:D£scp.iptio^. T ENGTH ten inches. Bill black : plumage on the upper part* 



pale afh-colour ; the under white : through the eyes a black 



ftripe: fcapulars white: bafe of the greater quills white ; the 



reft black : the tail fomewhat cuneiform ; the two middle feathers 



are black ; the outmoft on each fide white ; thofe between are 



black, with the ends more or lefs white : the legs are black. 



Female. The female is not much unlike the male, differing chiefly in the 



under parts, which are of a dufky white, marked with tranfverfe 



femicircular brown lines. 



•Puce. This inhabits many parts of Europe and North America. The 



female lays fix eggs, about as big as thofe of a Thrufh, of a dull 



olive-green, fpotted at the thickeft end with black: it makes it's 



neft with heath and mofs, lining it with wool and go (Tamer *. 



It is pretty common in France, but I no where find it the cafe in 



r.efpect to England. 



Mansers. The manners of this bird are fingular, and worthy of record. 



* Br. Zool, 



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