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ftroke is produced beyond the Ears: This black line is terminated and divided from 

 the afh-colour by another whitiui one. The lower belly is white * The Throat and 

 Breaft white, dallied with red. 



There are in each Wing eighteen beam-feathers 5 the firffc or outmoft very (hort Quiis of the 

 and little, the third ldngeft of all. The Wings (hut much (horter than the Tail. The Wlng * 

 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 The **& 

 twelve feathers, of which the outmoft are the fliorteft, the reft on each fide in order 

 longer to the middlemoft, which are the longeftj andalmoft wholly blacky of the 

 next to thefe the bottoms or lower parts are white, efpecially the interiour Web ; of 

 the four next on each fide the lower half is white, as alfo the tips 5 of the outmoft 

 the exteriour webs are wholly white. 



The Feet are black, or of a dark blue colour. The outmoft Toe joyned at bottom The Feet, 

 to the middlemoft. 



The Tefticles white and round 5 the Gall large 5 the Guts eleven inches long 5 the The Entrails, 

 blind Guts ftiort and little : in the ftomacn differed we found Flies and Beetles. and Food ; 



The Bird here defcribed had built herNeft in a Holly-buih, of grafs, bents, and TheNdtamS 

 feathers } in which were fix oblong, pretty great Eggs, toward the (harper end al- ggs ' 

 moft wholly white, toward the blunter encompaffed with a circle of brown or dark 

 red, as it were a Coronet. 



At Florence I defcribed a Lanius, which the Fowlers there called Vellia, very like 

 to this 5 only the bottoms or lower part of the eight outmoft beam-feathers of the 

 Wings were White, and that (0 far that fome part of the white appeared above the 

 covert feathers. Of which note I wonder that neither Aldrovandus nor MtWillughby 

 have made any mention in their defcriptions of this bird. 



§. IIL 



A Hen Butcher-bird like to thefecond Lanius of Aldrovahdus. 



IT is lomewhat lefs than the precedent in all dimenfions. It differs from the fecond 

 of Aldrovandus in that its Bill is not red but black , nor the feet cinereous, but like 

 thofe of the Cock 5 and alio that it wants the white fpot on the Wing. The Head is 

 of an aih-colour inclining to red, asin Thmjhes. The Back reddifh, varied with (emi- 

 circular black lines near the tip of each feather. The feathers next incumbent on 

 the Tail are long, of a deeper red, and adorned with femicircular lines. The Throat 

 ..and Breaft elegantly variegated with the like black femicircles, almoft after the man- * 

 ner of the Wryneck. The Belly is white. The prime feathers of the Wings dusky 5 

 but thofe next the body* and the leiler rows of covert-feathers of the Wings have 

 red edges. The Tail black, with a tin&ure of red. The outmoft feathers have all 

 their exteriour webs white $ the four next on each fide have their tips whiter the 

 two middlemoft are of a dark red. . The lower Chap of the Bill from the middle al- 

 moft half way is white. 



§. IV; 



Another fort of Butcher-Bird, perhaps the Lanius minor primus, Aldrov. 



THis had a white fpot on each (boulder : The bottomsofthe nine outmoft beam- 

 feathers were white : Above the Bill was a crofs black line : The Head of a 

 pale red or ruffet: The Back firft red, then afli-coloured : Under the Throat were 

 tranfverfe dusky lines, elfe the whole underfide was of a dirty white. I alfo [ J. R.~] 

 at Florence m Italy &w and defcribed a Lanius like to this, differing only in that the 

 Head and Neck were of a deeper red. Mr. Willughby alfo defcribed another killed 

 near the River Rhene in Germany, whofe Head was of a lovely red : A line or white 

 fpace of the figure of a Parabola encompaffed the Tail, the interiour fpace or Area, 

 therein contained being black. The eleven exteriour Quils were white from the bot- 

 tom almoft to the middle. The Feet and Claws black. 



In all the birds of this kind that I have feen and defcribed the bottom of the nine 

 outmoft beam-feathers of the Wings were white. 



The birds of this kind differ very much in colour, fo that I am in fome doubt, whe- 

 ther the above defcribed differ in Species, or in Age and Sex only. I fufpect- they differ 

 fpecifically. N The 



