Jowilh; and the edges of the greater quills of the fame colour,
forming two narrow bars on the wings ; legs black,
Place unknown.
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RED
S.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
Red Lanius, or Butcher-bird of Surinam, Saner,'Guiana, p. 154*
Tl/TR. Bancroft defcrib.es it in this manner: it has a ftrait bill,
with a tooth on each fide, near the point; a naked nofe-j
and a feemirlgly lacerated tongue : its body is of a bright red-
colour, ornamented with fpots like eyes on the wings and tail,
which are black at the ends of the feathers.
I do not find this bird occur, except in the above-named
author.
* Inhabits Surinam.
MAGPIE Llv- Muf ‘
s.
D e s c r i p t io n QIZE of a Song-thrulh : length ten inches. The bill is three
° quarters of an inch long, ftrong, and black, with a very flight
notch near the tip: the head, neck, and middle of the breaft, are
of a glofly black: the back, Ihoulders, leffer coverts of the wing,
belly, fides, thighs, and vent, white: the greater wing coverts
and fecond quills are black, margined with white; the greater
quills wholly black: the tail "is long and cuneiform; the two
middle feathers being four inches and a half long, and the outer
ones only two inches ; all of them are tipt with white, but the
white occupies moft fpace on the outer feathers : legs flout and
black.
This bird is in fine prefervation in the Leverian Mttfeum, but
from whence it came is not noticed. It has, at firft fight, the appearance
of a Magpie in miniature, but on examination plainly
proves not to belong to the Crow gems, as the noftrils are not
covered with briftles. The bill is almoft flout enough to place
it with the Grsjheaks; but, as it does not truly appertain to
one nor the other, I have ventured to rank it with the Shrikes, to
which it feems to have much conformity, elpecially in the fhape
and length of the tail, a circumftance common to many of the
genus.
G e n u s