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BRITISH BIRDS. 
Sloanian Mufeum, and is not unlike the leafl But- 
cher Bird of that celebrated naturalift, which it re- 
fembles in fize and in the diflribution of its co- 
lours. M. Buffon fuppofes it may be a variety of 
the Red-backed Shrike, as they both depart in Sep- 
tember, and return at the fame time in the fpring ; 
the manners of both are faid to be the fame, and 
the difference of colours not very material : The 
female is fomewhat different ; the upper parts of 
the plumage being of a reddifh colour, tranfverfely 
ftreaked with brown ; the under parts of a dirty 
white, marked in the fame manner with brown; 
the tail is of a reddifh brown, with a dufky mark 
near the end, tipt with red. 
