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The leffer Butcher-Bird, Lanius tertius. 



Numb. XIV, XV. 



IT weighed two Ounces and a half} from the Tip'of the Bill to the End of the Tail 

 'twas feven Inches and a half long ; from the Tip of one Wing to the Tip of the 

 other when extended 'twas twelve Inches and a half broad, 



The Bill was an Inch long, black and ftrong ; the Tip of the upper Chap hooked ; 

 near the hooked Part furnifhed with two angular Appendices, over hanging the lower 

 Chap when the Mouth is fhut, it having no Dents or Cavities to receive thefe Ap- 

 pendices, wherein the Bill of this Bird differs from that of the Hobby or Keftrels the 

 Jvdouth within yellow; the Cleft of the Palate rough; the Tongue divided into many 

 Filaments; the Noftrils round, about the Noftrils and Corners of the Mouth grew ftiff 

 black Hairs or Briftles ; the middle of the back, and lefler Rows of Feathers covering 

 the upper Side of the Wing redilli or ferrugineous ; the Head and Rump cinereous j 

 from the Corners of the Mouth through the Eyes a black Stroak is produced beyond 

 the Ears; this black Line is terminated and divided from the Afh-Colour by another 

 whitifh Line ; the lower Belly is white, as is alfo the Throat and Breaft. with a faint 

 TTindure of red. 



There is in each Wing eighteen beam Feathers j the firft or outmoft very fhort and 

 little, the third longeft of all j the Wings fhut much Ihorter than the Tail^ the 

 greater Wing Feathers dusky; the exteriour Vanes of thofe next the Body being red^ 

 the Edges of the middlemoft white ^ the Tail is three Inches long, compofed of 

 twelve Feathers, of which the outmoft is fhortcft ; the reft on each Side in Order 

 longer to the middlemoft, which are the longeft, and almoft wholly black ; of the 

 next to thefe, the Bottoms or lower Parts are white, efpecially the interiour Web? 

 of the four next on each Side, the lower half is white, as alfo the Tips^ of the out- 

 moft, the exteriour Webs are wholly white. 



The Feet are black, the outmoft Toe joined at the bottom to the middlemoft j the 

 Tefticles white and round ; the Gall large j the Guts eleven Inches long ; the blind 

 Gut Ihort and little ; in the Stomach, when difleded, was found Flies and Beetles. 

 They build their Neft of Grafs, Bents, and Feathers, in which they lay five or fix Eggs, 

 pretty large and of an oblong Shape, almoft wholly white, except toward the blunter 

 End J they are encompafied with a Circle of dark red, as it were a Coronet. This 

 Bird was a Cock. 



The hen is a very fmall matter lefs than the Cock -, the Bill of a dusky cinereous 

 Colour with a Dafh of red j the Top of the Head, Back, and prime Feathers of the 

 Wings, of a dark rediih brown; the lefler Rows of covert Feathers are inclining to 

 red ,• the Throat and Breaft of a dusky white with fome circular tranfverfe Lines of a 

 dusky Colour, after the manner of the /i^'«^r/& ; the Belly and the Thighs are white^ 

 the Legs and Feet of a pale redifti brown ; The Tail of the fame Colour of the Back, 

 the under Part white. 



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