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ORD. II. GEN. I. SHRIKE. 



S P E. III. WOOD CHAT. 



PI. 31. 



Lanius rutilus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 70, No. 12. 

 La Pie-grieche rouffe. Brif. Orn. II. p. 147. 



This bird is nearly as large as the red-backed flirike. The bill is of a dark 

 horn colour: eyes brown: a black line from the beak paffes through the eye, 

 and down part of the neck, as in the laft defcribed : the top of the head, and 

 hind part of the neck, are of a bright chefnut colour: back, and wing coverts, 

 brown : on the flioulder of each wing is a broad patch of white : the throat, 

 breaft, and belly, are white : tail feathers brown black, with their outer mar- 

 gins and tips whitifli : legs black : wings very lliort. The tail is cuneiform, as 

 in the other birds of this genus. 



The female is reddifh on the upper parts of the body, and dirty white be- 

 neath, crofled with brown lines : tail reddifh brown, marked near the end with 

 a bar of dark brown, and tipped with red. 



This is a very rare fpecies in England. 



