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SHRIKES. 
Crows. 
Roxter. 
ORIOLE. 
Cuckoo. 
WryNECK. 
Wooppeck- 
ERS. 
APPENDIX. VII. — 
are birds of prey, and having at all times in this 
island means of living, are not obliged to quit 
their quarters. 
The Flusher, or red back. Shrike, and the 
great Shrike, breed with us; we have not heard 
of the other, so suspect that it migrates. 
Of this genus, the Hooded Crow migrates re- 
gularly with the Woodcock. It inhabits North 
Britain the whole year: a few are said annually 
to breed on Dartmoor, in Devonshire. It breeds 
also in Sweden and Austria, in some of the 
Swedish provinces it only shifts its quarters, in 
others it resides throughout the year. I am at 
a loss for the summer retreat of those which 
visit us in such numbers in winter, and quit our 
country in the spring; and for the reason why a 
bird, whose food is such that it may be found. at 
all seasons in this country, should leave us. 
The Roller and Oriole are merely occasional 
visitants. Ep. 
Disappears early in autumn; the retreat of 
this and the following bird is quite unknown 
to us. 
Is a bird that leaves us in the winter, and re- 
visits us in the spring a little earlier than the 
Cuckoo. If its diet be ants alone, as several 
assert, the cause of its migration is very evident. 
Continue with us the whole year; their food 
