
Baw. bt ANY US. 
THE BUTCHER BIRD, or SHRIKE. 
The Butcher Bird’s beak is not very crooked ; it. has a 
kind of procefs, or tooth, on each fide, near the point, 
: and is naked at the bafe. 
The tongue is jagged at the end. 
The outmoft toe is clofely joined to the middle toe, as 
far as the firft joint. | 
"HE Butcher Birds are much fmaller than 
the Kite; but they are very fierce : for they 
will attack birds four times as large as themfelves. 
They feize the birds, that they prey upon, by 
the throat, and ftrangle them; then they fix them 
upon thorns, and pull them to pieces, becaufe 
_ their talons are too weak to hold the birds whilft 
_ they tear them with their beaks. 
All the young ones live together, the firft year, 
- with their parents. 
Their manner of flying is generally up and: 
down, and not ftraight forwards, or fideways. 
Befides birds, they fometimes feed on infects. 
~ Several kinds of Butcher Birds live in England, 
and in other parts of Europe. 
One kind has a creft upon its head, and is 
found in Bengal, which is in the Eaft-Indies, 
(the Eaft-Indies are in Afia.) | 
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