LANIUS COLLURI O. 
RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
Generic Character. See Lanias excubitor. 
Synonyms. 
Lanius Collurio. Lin. Syft, i. p. 136. 12, Ind^ 
Orn, X, p. 69. 11. 
Red-backed Shrike, Br. ZooL 1. 72, Ih, foL p> 74. 
tab, C 1, Ar5i. ZooL 2, 131, Lath* 
Syn. i» p, 167. 25. lb» fupi. p, 52. 
Mont, Orn, Di5f, FoL 2, Bewick's 
Bn Birds^ Pi. 1 . p. 96. 
Lesser Butcher-bird or Flusher, Alhi'ds Birds^ 
2. tab. 14. 
JL HIS fpecies is feven inches and three quarters in lengthy 
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 
conpipofed 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 flump ; 
the nefl is loofely compofed of mofs, roots, and wool, lined 
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