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BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
LESSER BUTCHER BIRD, OR FLUSHER. 
( Lanlus Collurioy Lin. — UEcorcheur y Buff.) 
Is fomewhat lefs than the laft, being little more 
than feven inches long : Its bill is black ; irides 
hazel ; the head and lower part of the back are of 
a light grey colour; the upper part of the back 
and coverts of the wings are of a bright rufty red ; 
the break, belly, and fides of a fine pale rofe or 
bloom colour ; the throat is white ; a ftroke of 
black paffes from the bill through each eye ; the 
two middle feathers of the tail are black, the o- 
thers are white at the bafe ; the quills are of a 
brown colour ; the legs black. 
The female is fomewhat larger than the male ; 
the head is of a rufi; colour, mixed with grey ; the 
