SHRIKE. 11 



found in the warmer parts of the United States, while the other 

 species is chiefly confined to the north, and seldom extends to the 

 south of Virginia ; makes the nest in a detached bush, in the manner 

 of the Mocking Bird, and is called Loggerhead. 



5— RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 



Lanius Collurio, Ind. Orn. i. 69. Lin. i. 136. Gm. Lin. i. 300. Faun. Suec. No. 81. 



Scop. i. No. 19. Bris.ii. 151. Id. 8 vo. 202. Brun. No. 23. 24. Muller. p. 11, 



Kram. p. 363. Faun. Arag. p. 71. Sepp. Vog. pi. p. 127. Gunth. Nest. U. Ey. 



t.23. Borowsk. ii. p. 83, Spalowsk.n, t.5. Klein. Av. p. 53. 2. Bechst. Deuts. 



ii. 392. t. xvi. f. 1. 2. Id. Ed. ii. p. 1335. Schcef. El. t. 43. Shaiv's Zool. vii. 315. 



Nat. Misc. pi. 377. Tera. Man. d'Orn. p. 63. J«\ i?d. ii. p. 148. 

 Lanius minor ruft'us, Raii, 18. Will. 54. Gerin. t.55. f. 1. 2. 

 — — aeruginosus major, Klein. Av. t.5. f. 8. 

 Merulse congener alia, .Raii, p.67. 13? FFi//. p. 144. 3. 

 Falco cong-ener, Klein. Stem. t. 9. f. 2. a. b. 

 Der Finkenbeisser, Naturf,S. s. 61. 

 Ferlotta rossa, Zinnan. Uov.1l. 1. 15. f. 81: 

 Pie-griesche rousse, Darnegas, Hist. Prov.u. 335. 



L'Ecorcheur, Bvf. i. 304. pi. 21. P/. en/. 31. 2. £evai/. Oi*.ii. p. 50. pi. 64: 

 Lesser Butcher-Bird, Flusher, Alb. ii. 1. 14. ' Will. Engl. 88. 2. 89.3. 

 Red-backed Shrike, Gen. 5yn.i. 167. Id. Sup. 52. Id. Sup. ii. 69. £r. Zoo/, i. No. 



72. Id./o/. 74, t. C, 1. Id. Ed. 1812. p. 275. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 131. Bewick, i. 



pi. p. 60. Leicin's Birds, i. t.30. jW. .£#§■. t. v. f. 2. JFa/c. Syn. i. pi. 30. 0m. 



Diet, if Sup. 



LENGTH 1\ inches, weight eight drams. Bill black ; irides 



dark hazel ; through the eyes, from the bill, a black streak ; head, 



and lower part of the back light grey ; the upper, and wing coverts 



ferruginous ; tail black, all the feathers, except the two middle 



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