SHRIKE. 23 



Inhabits the Gape of Good Hope, and is more probably the 

 Canary-Biter, or Fiscal Bird, than the ferruginous species before 

 conjectured : for Thunberg * says, that these two names were given 

 to a black and white bird, Lanins Collaris, which was common in 

 the town, and every garden about the Cape ;f and that it is a bird 

 of prey, though small, and its food insects, as beetles and grass- 

 hoppers, catching them with great dexterity, and when it could not 

 consume them all, would stick the remainder on the pales of the 

 farm yards, till it had occasion for them ; has also been observed to 

 catch Sparrows and Canary Birds, but devoured only the brains. 



Levaillant ascertains these facts, and gives us a figure of the 

 young, as well as the adult bird; he adds, that it is found in Senegal, 

 and all the internal parts of Africa, and by no means a variety of 

 the Cinereous Shrike ; differing in the quills, as the latter has fifteen, 

 marked with white, but in the Collared only seven ; the tail feathers, 

 also, in the cinereous species, are twice as broad as in the Fiscal. 



17.— SENEGAL SHRIKE. 



Lanius Senegalus, Lid. Om. i. 74. Lin.'u 137. Gm. Lin. i. 304. Shaw's Zool. vii. 314. 



— Seneg. cinereus, Bris.ii. 167. t.17. 1. Id. 8vo.i. 203. Gerin. t. 61. 1. 



Pie-griesche grise du Senegal, PI. enl. 297. 1 ? 

 Senegal Shrike, Gen. Syn.'u 162. Id. Sup. ii. 72. 



LENGTH nine or ten inches. Bill, crown, and lore black ; over 

 the eye a whitish bar, beginning at the nostrils, and terminating 



* Trav. i. p. 293. f We must observe, that more than one or two birds 



go by the name of Canary-Biter, at the Cape of Good Hope. 



