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BOULBOUL SHRIKE. 



bird is harsh and unmelodious. If this be the 

 case, the music of the Bulbul may be considered 

 as nearly allied to the celebrated song of the 

 Swan, so often recorded in the flights of poetie 

 fiction. 



BOULBOUL SHRIKE. 



Lanius Boulboul. L. niger, pectore abdomineque cmerascentibuSg 

 alisfuscisfasciis duabus albidis. Lath, ind, orn. 



Black Shrike, with subcinereous breast and abdomen, and 

 brown wings with two whitish bars. sff 



Boulboul Shrike. Lath. syn. suppl. 



This is of the size of a Fieldfare, and seems to 

 have been first described by Mr. Latham : the bill 

 is yellow, and slightly curved at the tip : the legs 

 are also yellow. It is a native of India, where it 

 is called the Greater Bulbul, and must not be 

 confounded with the preceding species, which is 

 more emphatically distinguished by authors under 

 the name of BulbuL 



