or BIRDS. 
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BUTCHER BIRD. 
The Butcher Bird is about ns large as a 
thiush; its bill is black and hooked at the 
end; its legs and feet are slender? andfu 
toes are formed like thoso of birds ’that live 
"V? grain ' , Smal1 birds arc 
us usual food. It seizes them bv tin- ilnnni 
jinil strangles them in an instnnf When it 
eiehbm, ,tllled „' he bird > ^ fxest upmi some 
neighbouring thorn, us a butcher does his 
nod VI 1 * hook > und . "'Inn thus spitted 
I Vs , P ‘ C T w,th its <>iU. 1 1 is supposed 
cicm VW 1 ','; *f S n °‘ glven ll,is bird suffi- 
J|th I* 4 U hawk, do, H obli^dtl 
biVan” 8 ° f , r n ^- lhi,n to sae tins little 
& 
their°resentmcntf ^ Strcngth or W 
