SHRIKE, 



i6§ 



From fome of the iOands of the South Seas, but uncertain 

 ?/hicb, The individual in the pofleftion ofSirJof. Banks. 



Place. 



Lev. Miif. 



T ENGTH near eight inches. Bill black, not much bent; 

 noftrils round and fmall : at the bafe of the upper mandible 

 five or fix black briftles : the plumage is brown above : chin and 

 breaft cinereous : belly and vent incline to brown : the four mid- 

 dle tail feathers plain brown ; the reft of the outer ones have the 

 inner webs white at the tips; length of it two inches : legs fhort, 

 and of a lead-colour: claws ftrong, hooked, and brown. 



Brought from the northern parts of America by the late 

 voyagers.. 



ENGTH about fix inches. Bill' black: crown of the head, 

 fides, and throat, of a fhining black: upper part of the body 

 olive ; under parts the fame, but paler : rump dufky : quills and 

 fecondaries the fame ; the laft have olive edges : tail rounded ; 

 the half next the bafe of an olive-colour, then black-, the ends of 

 all the feathers yellow; the outer ones molt fo, leffening by de- 

 grees to the middle ones, which are but jufc marked with yellow 

 at the tips : legs dufky. 



Inhabits the Sandwich IJles in the South Seas. 



* In this and the following plates a fcale of the length, taken from the tip of 

 the bill to the end of the tail, is added. This fcale, in every cafe, is meant to 

 fignify. one twelfth part of the real length of the bird, over which it is placed. 

 Where no fcale is added, fuch bird is fuppofed to be of the natural fize. 



Laniua 



NORTHERN 

 S. 



Description,, 



12. 



BLACK- 

 hEADIAD 



S. 

 Pl. VI. * 



Description, 



'lace. 



