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PLATE CCVII. 

 LANIUS EXCUBITOR, fern. 

 GREAT SHRIKE, fern. 



ACCIPITRES. 



1 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftraightilh, with a tooth on each mandible near the tip, the 

 feafe naked: tongue jagged at the end. 



SPECIFIC C HARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Tail wedge -form, fides white : back hoary, wings black, with a 

 white fpot. 



LANIUS Excubitor: cauda cuneiformi, lateribus alba, dorfo 

 cano, alis nigris macula alba. Linn. Syft. I* 

 p. 155. 11 *— Fn. Suec. N° 80.— Lath. Ind, 

 Orn. 67. 6. 



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