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LANIUS CARO LINENS IS. 
furnished with a sharp process, bending' down greatly 
at the point, where it is black, and beset at the base 
with a number of long black hairs or bristles; the 
nostrils are also thickly covered with recumbent hairs; 
the iris of the eye is a light hazel ; pupil, black. The 
female is easily distinguished by being ferruginous on 
the back and head ; and having the band of black 
extending only behind the eye, and of a dirty brown 
or burnt colour ; the under parts are also something 
rufous, and the curving lines more strongly marked ; 
she is rather less than the male, which is different from 
birds of prey in general, the females of which are usually 
the larger of the two. 
In the Arctic Zoology , we are told that this species 
is frequent in Russia, but does not extend to Siberia ; 
yet one was taken within Behring’s Straits, on the 
Asiatic side, in lat. 66° ; and the species probably 
extends over the whole continent of North America, 
from the western ocean. Mr Bell, while on his travels 
through Russia, had one of these birds given him, 
which he kept in a room, having fixed up a sharpened 
stick for him in the wall ; and on turning small birds 
loose in the room, the butcher bird instantly caught 
them by the throat in such a manner as soon to suffocate 
them ; and then stuck them on the stick, pulling them 
on with bill and claws; and so served as many as were 
turned loose, one after another, on the same stick.* 
88. LAN I US CAXOLINENSIS, WILSON. 
LANIUS LUJDOriCIANUS, LINNAEUS LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 
WILSON, PLATE XXII. FIG. V. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This species has a considerable resemblance to the 
great American shrike. It differs, however, from that 
bird in size, being a full inch shorten; and in colour, 
* Edwards, vol. vii. p. 231. 
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