VIGOR’S BUSH SHRIKE .—T/iamnop/iiZus Vigorsii . 
The Bush Shrikes are well represented by the beautiful Vigor’s Bush 
Shrike. 
This bird is a native of Southern America, and is generally found in forests 
and thick brushwood, where it passes its time in a constant search after the small 
mammalia, birds, reptiles, and insects, on which it feeds. It is a large and 
rather powerful bird, and as it possesses a strong and sharply hooked beak, it is 
a very formidable foe to any creature which it may attack. Its claws are also 
powerful, curved and very sharp, so that the bird is aided by its feet as well as 
by its beak in the demolition of its prey. In order to enable the bird to prey 
among the rank herbage and thick massy foliage of the localities in which it 
dwells, its legs are long in proportion to the size of its body, and the grasp of its 
feet very strong, so that it is able to perch upon a bough or on the ground, and 
raise its head to some height while surveying the locality with its piercing glance. 
The wings are rather short and rounded. 
