OF FB PRIS . 27 age 
Genus 4. ag esis ia 
THE BUTCHER BIRD, or SHRIKE. 
The Butcher Bird’s beak is not very crooked 5 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 sae to the middle wn ag 
far as the firft joint. : 
HE Butcher Birds are much frialler nore : 
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, 2 
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. a 
_ All the young ones live sas the firft year, 
Ww ith 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 es Indies are in Afia, ) ; 
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