558 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Shrike. 



Turdus faxatilis. Syft. nat. cd. xii. 294. n. 4. Lath. ind. orn. i. 336. n. 33 Merula faxatilis 



minor. BriiT. av. ii. 240. — Petrocofyphos. Gem. av. 767.— Blankoepfige rothe Amfel. Frifch, av. 

 t. 32. 



Inhabits molt of Europe, and is found in Siberia. — This fpecies lives in woods, deferts, and moun- 

 tainous places, building in holes and caverns of inacceffible rocks, where it lays three or four eggs 

 each brood : It has considerable affinity in external form to the Thrufh and Crow, and accordingly 

 Mr Latham ranks the larger variety with Crows, and the fmaller with the Thruihes ; it refembles 

 the Shrike, however, in its noify and quarrelfome manners, and in feeding on any remains of flefh 

 that comes in its way, and likewife feeds on worms and infects, with which it feeds its neftlmgs; its 

 fong is tollerably pleafant. 



326 $j. Wreathed Shrike. — 53. Laniusfauflus. 26. 



Of a grey colour above, with a white line behind the eyes ; the under parts of the body 

 are rufty j the tail is rounded. Amoen. ace. iv. 241. 

 White-wreathed Shrike. Lath. fyn. i. 178. n. 28. 



Inhabits China. — This fpecies is about the fize of a Fieldfare; the bill, legs, and feet are pale ; the 

 wings are rounded, the quill feathers being brownifh, with grey margins, and marked with crofs light- 

 er brown lines 5 the tail is brown, and is lined with lighter brown, like the wings. 



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