S H H I X E. it,? 



linius collurio, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 136. N? 12. — Scop. Ann. i. p. 24. N* 



19. — Kram. p. 363. — Muller, p 11. 4- RED- 



L'Ecorcheur, £/-//. ii. p. 151. N° 4.— A/", c.y. i. p. 304.. pi. 21.~PI.ea/. BACKER. 



3:. f. z. ' S. 



Lanius minor rufFus feu 3 rtus Aldrovandi, Rail fyn. p. 18. A. 4. 



Leffer Butcher-bird, called in Yorkfhire Flufoer, Will, orn, p. 88. — Albin. 

 vol. ii. pi. 14. 



Merulae congener alia, Raiijyn. p. 67, N° 13 ? — ®7//. orn. p. 195. ^9. N°3 / 



Red-backed Shrike, Br. Z.00I. i. N° 72. 

 £r. M»/. Lev. Muf. 



': ENGTH feven inches and a half : weight two ounces. Bill Description, 

 black : irides hazel : through the eyes, from the bill, a black 

 llroke : head and lower part of the back light grey: upper part of 

 the back, and wing coverts, ferruginous : tail black ; all the feathers, 

 except the two middle ones, are more or lefs white at the bafe j 

 the outer web of the outer feather white : the breaft, belly, and 

 fides, are blofTom-coloured : the quills brown : the legs black. 



The head in the female is dull ferruginous, mixed with grey: ' Female. 

 breafr, belly, and : fides, dirty white, crofTed with femicircular 

 dufky lines : tail deep brown ; the outer feather white only on 

 the outer web. It is rather larger than the male. 



I believe this bird to be much more common than the cine- Elace 



reous Shrike ; at ieaft it is fo in England, where I fhould fufpect miners 

 Its being a bird of paflage, never having feen it here in the win- 

 ter. It lays fix white eggs, marked with a rufous brown circle 

 towards the large end. The neft is generally in a hedge or low 

 bufh ; near which I have heard it affirmed that no fmall bird, 

 chufes to build ; .for it not only feeds on infects, but alfo the young 



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