SHRIKE. 169 



Xa Pie-griefche rouife, JSrif. orn. ii. p. 147, N° 3.— Buf. oi/.i, p 301. — T7. 



PL enl. 9. f. 2. the male, and 31. f. 1. the female. WOOD CHAT 



Ampelis Dorfo grifeo, macula ad aures longitudinali, F/t. Suec. edit. i ma . 



N° 180. t. 2. fasm. 

 Kleiner Neun-toder, Fri/ch. pi. 61. male and fern. 

 Ampelis 3 tia , Kram. Elench. p. 363. 

 Lanius minor cinerafcens, &c. Rati Sjn. p. 19. A. 6. 

 Another Sort of Butcher-bird, Will. orn. p. 89. §4. 

 Wood Chat, Br. Zool. N° 73. 



CIZE of the two laft. Bill horn-colour; feathers round the Description. 



bafe whitifh : head, and hind part of the neck, bright bay : 

 from the bafe of the bill, over the forehead, and through the eyes 

 on each fide, a ftreak of black, paffing down the neck on each 

 fide : back dufky : fcapulars white : upper tail coverts grey ; 

 wing coverts dufky : quills black ; near the bottom of each 3 

 white fpot : the two middle tail feathers are black; the others 

 are the fame, but the outer margin and tips are whitifh : legs 

 'black. 



The female is reddifh on the upper parts of the body, the under Female. 

 parts dirty white : every where tranfverfely ftriped with brown : 

 tail reddifh brown, marked near the end with dufky, and tipt 

 with red. 



Mr. Pennant does not defcribe this bird from his own irifpec- 

 tion ; and I muft confefs that it has never come under mine ; I 

 fuppofe therefore that it is not common in England. 



M. de Buffon does not talk of it as uncommon, but gives it as 

 his opinion that the three laft mentioned are mere varieties of 

 each others a facl which, from my own obfervation, I cannot 

 deny. 



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