i So
RUFOUS LaniUS Lin‘ M ' p- l} 7 ' N° 17'
S, La pie-griefche roufle de Madagafcar, Brif. on. Ü.. p, 178» N’ 16.. pi. 18.
f. 4.—PI. enl. 298. f. 2.
Le Schet-be, Buf. oif. i. p. 313.
Description. J ENGTH feven inches and three quarters. Bill lead-colour}
bafe briftly : head, throat, and neck, greenifh black: upper
parts of the body rufous ; beneath cinereous white : thighs cinereous
: quills brown within; on the outer edge rufous and brown
mixed: tail rufous; the margins brown on both fides near the
end : legs and claws horn-colour.
Female. 'The female has the colours lefs vivid : throat and fore part o f
the neck grey: the outer edge of the quills of a plain rufous colour
: in other things like the male.
F lace. Thefe inhabit Madagafcar, where the male is called Schet-be, ,
and the female Pcha-cbert-dae *.
WHITE D® grande pie-griefche verdâtre de Madagafcar, Brif. on. il. N° 24. pi. 1.9.
HEADED f- 2-—PI- ml. 374.
S. Tcha-chert-bé, Buf . oif U p. 314.
D escription. J^ EN G TH eight inches: fize of a Blackbird. Bill lead-colour:
head, neck, throat, breaft, belly, lides, thighs, under tail, and
wing coverts, white : lower part of the neck behind, the back,
rump, fcapulars, upper wing, and tail coverts, greenifh black :
quills black, with green edges: tail black beneath; above
greenifh black : legs and claws lead-colour.
• See Brif. om. ii. p. 178.
This
This likewife is found at Madagafcar, with the laft, to which it Place»-
feems to bear fome affinity.
Laniirs leucoryncos, Lin, Mant. 1771. p. 524.
La pie-griefche dfc Manille, Brif. orn. ii. p. 180. N°t t ; pi. 18. f. 2.*—
PI. enl. 9. f. 1.
Langraien, Buf. oif. i, p. 310.
WHITE-BILLED?
S-
^ ENGTH feven inches. Bill hoary; bafe befet with brifiles:
Head, throat, neck, back, and fcapulars, blackifh: rump,,
breaft, and under parts, whitifh : upper wing coverts, quill's, and
D escription.
tail, blackifh: wings and tail of equal length: legs and! claws
blackifh.
Inhabits the ifland of Manilla. Place;
Ea pie-griefche Dominiquaine, Son. voy. p. 3;. pK 26.
J3*
Var: A.
DOMINICAN
Sv
^JpHIS is bigger than a Sparrow, and rather longer. The bill is
greyifh, conic, and ftrong; the bafe befet with briftles,.
pointing forwards: the head,, neck, breaft, back, wings, and tail,
black:, belly, and. rump whiter the wings reach near an inch beyond
the middle oft the ta il: the thighs are black..
D escription..
This bird inhabits, the Philippine Ifiar.ds, and is a bold courageous.
bird : it flies very quick, and with great rapidity; frequently
hovering in the air like a Swallow. It is a great enemy
to the Raven,.whom, though much bigger, he bids defiance,,even
provoking him,to.combat: the battle.often lafts half an hour, and
end with the retreat of the Raven ; rather, perhaps, from, being
teized.
Place and
M anners»-