HATE XXXL 



LANIUS COLLURia 



Red-Backed Shrike, 

 Butcher-Bird, or Flusher. 



A-ccipitreS. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in each 

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger and 

 more beautiful than the males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill hooked towards the end, with a notch near the tip of the 

 tipper mandible ; bafe not furnifhed with a cere, Tongue jagged at 

 the end. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill black. A black ftroke through the eyes. Head light grey* 

 Upper parts of the back, and wing coverts, ferrugineous. Brea{t 5 

 belly, and fides, bloflbm-coloured. Legs black. Tail black ; all the 

 feathers, except the two middle ones, more or lefs white at the bafe. 

 Lanius Collurio. Cauda fubcuneiformi, dorfo grifeo, 

 rectricibus quatuor intermediis unicoloribus, roftro 

 plumbeo. — Lin, Syft. frat. i. 94, 3* edit* 12* 

 Faun. Arag. />. 71. 

 Scop. Ann. I. p. 24. N° 19. 

 Kram. p. 363. 

 Mullen p. 11. 

 r Sepp* Fog. pi. in p. 117, 



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