. A dictionary of birds . ^ ^ffU^ifit^ — (/■j SHRlIEKER—SHRIKE 843 though smaller maxillary, flap, and marked by a very peculiar style of coloration, is the! Blue Duck of New Zealand, Hymeno- f-f. Cr^^c^ Ixmus malacorhynclms, from its lobated hallux generally placed among V /. HvMENOLyEMUs. (After BuUer.) the Nyrocmx or FidiguUna? (Pochard), but having a tracheal con-formation very similar to that of the Anatinx and of Somateria.^ SHRIEKEE, an old name for the GODWIT. SHRIKE, a birds name so given, on the aiithority of SirFrancis Lovell, by Turner (1544, suh wcc Molliceps), who said hecould no
. A dictionary of birds . ^ ^ffU^ifit^ — (/■j SHRlIEKER—SHRIKE 843 though smaller maxillary, flap, and marked by a very peculiar style of coloration, is the! Blue Duck of New Zealand, Hymeno- f-f. Cr^^c^ Ixmus malacorhynclms, from its lobated hallux generally placed among V /. HvMENOLyEMUs. (After BuUer.) the Nyrocmx or FidiguUna? (Pochard), but having a tracheal con-formation very similar to that of the Anatinx and of Somateria.^ SHRIEKEE, an old name for the GODWIT. SHRIKE, a birds name so given, on the aiithority of SirFrancis Lovell, by Turner (1544, suh wcc Molliceps), who said hecould not find any one else who so called it, and had seen the birdbut twice in England, though in Germany often. There can be littledoubt that Turners informant was mistaken, and that the name,signifying a bird that screeches or shrieks ( Scric, old NorskSkrikja, mod. Scand. Skrihi—a Jay) probabl}^ applied originally tothe Mistletoe-THRUSH, known to Charleton in 1668 {Onomast. p. 83)as SHREITCH, and to AVillughby as SHRITE—a name it still bearsin some parts of England, to say nothing of cognate forms such asScreech-bird and Shirl. However, the word Shrike ^ was caughtup by succeeding writers ; and, though hardly used except in books—for Butcher-bird (p. 66) is its
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