5 4 S BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Shrike. 



male fits on the eggs and rears her young, the male is aftonifhingly bold and impetuous in attacking 

 and driving away other birds, even fixing on the backs of Eagles, Hawks, and Crows, perfecuting 

 them, and uttering a continual chattering note with great vehemence, till they are forced to retire ; 

 Mr Pennant adds that the bill is foft, and that it only feeds on infects, and accordingly ranks it among 

 Fly-catchers, Mufcicapae. The bill, legs, feet, and claws are blackifh brown ; the hides are brown ; 

 the longitudinal Break on the head is compofed of tawny feathers, with blackifh tips ; Mr Pennant 

 defcribes this ftreak as being fcarlet ; in fome inftances, faid by Mr Latham to be the females, it is 

 - yellow ; the tail is brown, edged with reddifh. 



283 jg. Domingo Tyrant Shrike. — 18. /3. L. Tyrannus dominie enftt. 



Of a brown grey colour above, and white below, with the breafl afh coloured. Lath, 

 ind. orn. i. 81. n. 53. /3. 



Tyrannus dominicenfis. BrifT. av. ii. 394. n. 19. t, 18. f. 2. — St. Domingo Tyrant. Lath. fyn. L 



185. n. 37. a. 



Inhabits St Domingo. — The tail quills are reddifh on their outer webs, and at the tips. 



284 y, Carolina Tyrant Shrike. — iB. y. L. Tyrannus carolinenfis. 



Of an afh colour above, and white beneath ; the head and tail are black, the lafr, being 

 tipt with white. Lath. ind. orn. i. 82. n. 53. y. 



Tyran de la Caroline. Buff. oif. iv. 577. — Gobe-mouche de la Caroline. PI. enl. n. 676.— Ca- 

 rolina Tyrant. Catefb. carol, i. t. 55. Lath. fyn. i. 186. n. 37. B. 



Inhabits Carolina. 



285 %, Louifiana Tyrant Shrike. — 18. <>. L. Tyrannus Judovicianus. 



Of a leaden colour above, and white below. Lath. ind. orn. i. 82. n. 53. £ 



Tyran de la Louifiane. Buff. oif. iv. 579. — Gobe-mouche de la Louifiane. PI. enl. n. 676. — 

 Louifiana Tyrant. Lath. fyn. i. 186. n. 37. c. Arct. zool. ii. 385. n. 264. 



Inhabits Louifiana. — The bi;I is long, flat, hooked at the end, and black ; the head and back are 

 brownifh afh ; the throat is flaty blue ; the belly is yellowifh ; the primary wing quills are bright 

 bay ; thefe, with the larger wing coverts, are edged with white •, the tail is long, of a brown afh co- 

 lour, and white at the fides and tip. 



286 20. Chinefe Shrike. — 19. Lanius Schach. 14. 



Is yellow ; with a black forehead and black wings. Lath. ind. orn. i. 75. n. 25. Ofb. voy. 



227. 



Chinefe Shrike. Lath. fyn. i. 173. n. 22. 



Inhabits China. — Is of the fame fize with the Tyrant Slirike ; the head and back of the neck are 

 grey ; the under part of the neck is dull reddifh white ; the back and belly are pale dufky red ; the 

 wing quills arc black, the primaries being white at the bafe, and the fecondaries whitifh at the tips. 



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