. Arctic zoology .. . 131, Red-backed. Br. Zool. i. -^^ ■jz.^Latham, i Lanius CoIIurio, Faun, Suec. N° 81. Pie-grieche de la Leuifians, De Buffon,\. 307.—PL Enl. 397.—Lev, Mu3. Q. With grey crown and rump : ferruginous back and coverts of wings: black line acrofs the eyes : breaft and belly rofeate : tail blacky exterior feathers edged with white : head and upper part ofthe Female dirty ruft-color; line over the eyes the fame color :breaft and belly dirty white, marked with duflcy femicircular feven inches and a ^Ac^ Inhabits RuJJia ; not Sibiria. Is found in Sweden an
. Arctic zoology .. . 131, Red-backed. Br. Zool. i. -^^ ■jz.^Latham, i Lanius CoIIurio, Faun, Suec. N° 81. Pie-grieche de la Leuifians, De Buffon,\. 307.—PL Enl. 397.—Lev, Mu3. Q. With grey crown and rump : ferruginous back and coverts of wings: black line acrofs the eyes : breaft and belly rofeate : tail blacky exterior feathers edged with white : head and upper part ofthe Female dirty ruft-color; line over the eyes the fame color :breaft and belly dirty white, marked with duflcy femicircular feven inches and a ^Ac^ Inhabits RuJJia ; not Sibiria. Is found in Sweden and Chnjiianfoe. The Count De Buffon fays, he received one from Louifiana. I ima-gine, that, as the Norwegians give the Great Shrilce and this a name,that they may be found in their country. The firft they call Klavert,the laft Hanvark. Mr. Ekmark has obferved both of them, onlyduring fummer, in Eajl Gothland; but is not certain whether theywinter. Each fpecies appears in Italy in the fpringj retires in A. Grey, Lanius Nengeta, , i^i^.—Latham,!. Pye oiBrafil. Ediu. 318. O With the crown, hind part of the neck, back, and coverts of the wings, deep cinereous: a black line pafles from the bill through the eyes to the hind part of the head : greater coverts and fe- condarics LESSER GREY SHRIKE. a^i condaries black, tipt with dirty white ; primaries black : bread andbelly light afh-color: tail black ; ends of the outmoft feathers larger than N° 127.} the common Great Shrike; and differsfpeclfically. Inhabits Ruffia, but is more frequent in Sibiria; where it lives in the Place; ibrefts the whole winter. Taken and tamed by the fowlers j and keptby the Ruffians for the diverfion it affords in the manner of killingits prey. They flick a rod with a Iharp point into the wall of aroom, on which the Shrike perches. They turn loofe a fmall bird,which the former inflantly feizes by the throat, ftrangles, and thenfpits it on the point of the ilick,
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