SHRIKE, 



■i«7 



--white : all the under parts white s legs lead-colour i on the 

 crown a deep crimfon fpot. 



The four laft mentioned are, I believe, varieties of each 

 other. 



T 'ENGTH feven inches. Bill nearly one inch long, and black j 

 in fhape not much unlike that of the Tyrant, but ftouter in 

 proportion, lefs compreffed, and curved at the tip ; the bafe fur- 

 nifhed with weak briftles : the general colour of the plumage, 

 without exception, of a dufky black : the tail fomewhat cunei- 

 form : legs black. 



I received two of thefe from Jamaica^ by the name of Black 

 loggerhead : one of the fpecimens had the outer edge of the fe- 

 cond quills brown, but whether differing in fex or not was not 

 mentioned-: faid to inhabit only the internal parts of the ifiand. 



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+. black 

 ■s. 



Description. 



Place* 



JLaniuspitangua, Lin. Syft. i. p. 136. N° -IJ. 



Le Tyran du Brefil, Brif. cm. H. p. 401.— PL enl. 21a. 



•Le Bentaveo, or le Cuiriri, B-uf. oif. iv. p. 579. pi. 27. 



Pitanga guacu, or Bemtere, Rail Syn. p. 165. N° 1. — Will. orn. p. 198, 



C IZE of a Blackbird : length nine inches. The bill is very 

 thick, more than half an inch long; the bafe of it befet with 

 -briftles : the bafe of the feathers on the crown of a fine orange : 

 on each fide of the head, from the noftrils, over the eye, to the 

 hind head, is a ftripe of white : beneath, and behind each eye, 

 is a deep brown fpot : the upper parts of the body are brown, 

 -each feather edged with yellow -, the under parts fine yellow : the 



B b 2 throat 



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Description. 



