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gape, through the eye, a black streak ; plumage on the upper parts 

 dark brownish ash-colour, beneath cinereous white ; in the middle 

 of the wing a few white feathers; quills and tail nearly black, all 

 the feathers of the latter, except the two middle, obliquely tipped 

 with white ; legs dark ash-colour. 



Inhabits Surinam, and Brazil ; by some thought allied to the 

 Great Shrike,* by others ranked with the Chatterers;! said to be 

 common at Guiana, and to frequent watery places in great numbers, 

 which at intervals set up a great cry altogether, by this circumstance 

 pointing out to the traveller, in the immense forests of that country, 

 a certain direction where to find water to allay his thirst ; and this 

 part of its manners seems to belong to the Chatterer genus, yet the 

 figure in Edwards accords most with the Skrike. I do not therefore 

 think it improbable, that the synonyms here drawn together into 

 one, may properly belong to two species. 



Mr. Pennant observes, that it inhabits Russia, but is more 

 frequent in Siberia, where it lives in the forests the whole winter ; is 

 taken and tamed by the fowlers, and kept by the Russians for the 

 diversion it affords in the manner of killing its prey, being the same 

 as before mentioned under the great Cinereous species, from which, 

 however, it should seem to differ specifically, and to be a larger, and 

 stouter bird. 



A. — Lanius ardosiacus, Vieill. Am.'u p. 81. pi. 51. 



This is grey above and white beneath, with a broad band on each 

 side of the head ; wings marked with white ; tail cuneiform,, the two 

 middle feathers black, the outer ones white. 



Inhabits America, especially in Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana; 

 makes a nest of dry bents and small roots, lined with wool and moss. 



* Linnxus. — Edwards. -J- Brisson — Buffon. 



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