LANIUS COLLURIO. 



RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 



Generic Character. See Lanius excubitor. 

 Synonyms. 



Lanius Collurio. Lin. Syfi, i. 136. 12. Ind, 

 Orn. 1. 6g. 11. 



Red-backed Shrike. Br, ZgoL 1. 72, 3.foL p. J4_. 



iab. C. 1. Jr^, Z00L 2, 131. La^b, 

 Syn, x,p, 167. 25. i^. y^(p/. />. 52* 

 Mi?;?/. Or;/. Z)/^^. Fo/. 2* Bewick's 

 Br, Birds, Ft. 1, p. 96. 



Lesser Butcher-bird or Flusher. AlUris Birds ^ 

 %. tab, 14. 



JL HIS fpecies is feven inches and three quarters in length, 

 twelve in breadth, and weighs rather more than one ounce. 

 Bill ftrong, with a deep notch near the tip \ irides dark hazel ; 

 legs and claws ftrong, the latter particularly fharp ; tail 

 x:ompofed of twelve feathers, the two centre ones of which 

 are the longeft. The female is rather larger, and differs fo 

 confiderably in colour, that we purpofe giving a figure of it 

 in a future number. 



It builds in thick low hedges, and fometimes the neft is 

 placed on the ground, at the root of fome old ftump ; 

 the neft is loofely compofed of mofs, roots, and wool, lined 



with 



