Pea bE RARE 
The favage peculiarities of this carnivorous tribe of birds have 
been already noticed in the account of the Wood Chat and Red-Back 
Shrike: it is only neceflary to add that this is the largeft kind found 
in this country, and is inferior to very few from foreign countries 
either in fize or courage. Its conflicts with larger birds are fome- 
times fevere; but the fmaller kinds it feizes by the throat and 
firangles: from this circumftance it is called, in Germany, the 
, Wearchangel, or Suffocating Angel.—The female differs from the 
male chiefly in the colour and markings of the breaft, that part 
being of a dufky white, and marked with a number of tranfverfe, 
femicircular brown lines. She lays fix eggs, of a dull olive colour, 
{potted at the thickeft end with black. The neft 1s compofed of 
heath and mofs, lined with wool. In North America, at Hudfon’s 
Bay, it is faid to build its neft half way up a Pine, or Juniper-tree, 
in Apmnil, and that the hen fits fifteen days*. 
FR Rn at a en prt re a en nm 
* Lath. Suppl. 5%. 
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