RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
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from which it seemed very reluctant to be driven by my 
approach. On examining the spot I found, very much 
to my satisfaction, a small bird, of what species 1 did 
not at the time note, so firmly spitted on a blunt thorn 
that it must have required considerable force to fix it 
there; it was in a state of perfect nudity, every feather 
had been plucked from it, and its head torn off. 
