BRITISH BIRDS. 
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GREAT ASH-COLOURED SHRIKE. 
MURDERING PIE, OR GREAT BUTCHER BIRD. 
(Lanius, exctibitor , Lin . — La Pie-griefche grife , Buff.) 
The length about ten inches : Its bill is black, 
and furnilhed with briflles at the bale ; the upper 
parts of its plumage are of a pale blue alh colour ; 
the under parts white ; a black ftripe paffes through 
each eye ; the greater quills are black, with a large 
white fpot at the bafe, forming a bar of that colour 
acrofs the wing ; the leffer quills are white at the 
top ; the fcapulars are white ; the two middle fea- 
thers of the tail are black ; the next on each fide 
are white at the ends, which gradually increafes to 
the outermoft, which are nearly white ; the whole, 
when the tail is fpread, forms a large oval fpot of 
