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Tanias brachyurus, Pallet Trav, i. p. 693. N“ 5.
..Description -, g I Z E of the cinereous Shrike. Top of the head ferruginous
grey: eyebrows whitilh: from the bill, through the eyes, a
ftreak of black : upper parts of the body cinereous grey, verging
to ferruginous; under parts yellowilh white: throat and vent
plain white : the wings are blackilh : coverts margined with
grey at the tip : tail * lhorter than the body; rounded at the end j
colour grey brown : all the feathers except the middle ones white
at the ends.
P la c e * Inhabits Hungary, but not in plenty.
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D e scr ip t ion *
Lanius phjenicurus, Pall. Trav. i. j*. 693. N° 6*
^ IZ E of the laft. Upper parts of the body rufous grey : through
the eyes a blackilh fafcia : under parts yellowilh white: tail
long, rounded at the end j the whole of it and the rump deep
rufous.
This, Dr. Pallas fays, was once feen by him in the fpring, but
the lpecimen decayed before a better account could be drawn up.
* Dr, Pallas counted but ten feathers in the tail o f this bird,
L a ni us
»jaffliY)-Tr,i»iT>ïnTlHTfl irr1 “mrirmr1Tirinnnri^wf'-“ " t TT
Damirs- ■ coiterio, Lit. S y fl.l p. ijd . N” i s ,— Am. u p. Ï+. R*
iq.—Kram. p. 3 6 3 Muller, p 11.
-L'Ecorcheur, Brif. 'A. p. 151. N6 4.— Bttf, tifi:i. p. 304. pi. u . - P I . ml.
3i . f . ï .
Lariius minor ruffus feu 3'4"1 Aldrovacdi, Ratify«. p. 18. A. 4.:
Lefler Butcher-bird, called it Yorklhire Flutter, Will ern. p. S S .-M in .
vol. ii. pi. 14.
Meriïlée congener alia, Haiijyn. p. 67, N° 13 ?—Will* orx. p. 195* 3 ^
Red-hacked Shrike, 2?r» Zool. i. N° 72.
£r. Mu/. Lev. M«/
T ENGTH feven inches and a half : weight two ounces. Bill
black: iridesbazel: through the eyes, from the bill, a black
ftroke: head and lo w e r part of the back light grey: upper part of -
the back, and wing coverts, ferruginous • tail blackj all the feathers,
except the two middle ones, are more or-leis white at the bale, ■
the outer web of the outer feather white : the breaft, belly, and
fides, are blöffom-coloured : the quills brown: the legs black,
. The head in the female is dull ferruginous, mixed with grey :
breaft, belly, and Tides, dirty white, crofted with femicircukr
dulky lines : tail deep hrown; the outer feather white only on
the Outer web. It is rather larger than the male.
I believe this bird to be much more- common than the cinereous
Shrike ; at leaft it is lo in England, where I lhould fufpeft
its being a bird of paflage, never havingTeen it here in thé winter.
It lavs fix white eggs, marked with a rufous brown circle
towards the large end. The neft is .generally in a hedge or lo.w
bufti; near which I have heard it affirmed that no final! bird
chufcs to huild; for it not only feeds on infers, but alfo the young
of-.
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