. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . number, rather smaller than those of the Red-backedShrike, and varying much in markings; the ground colour be-ing pale blue in some, in others a dirty white, surrounded nearthe larger end with a zone of rust-coloured spots ; in some,again, the markings and spots are of a paler colour, and moredispersed over the egg. It is not a wild bird, often
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . number, rather smaller than those of the Red-backedShrike, and varying much in markings; the ground colour be-ing pale blue in some, in others a dirty white, surrounded nearthe larger end with a zone of rust-coloured spots ; in some,again, the markings and spots are of a paler colour, and moredispersed over the egg. It is not a wild bird, often buildingclose to houses and public roads. The same gentleman men-tions two instances of its having been killed in England, nearCanterbury, and in the neighbourhood of Swaftliam in Nor-folk. Five others are brought forward by INIr Yarrell, in hisinstructive and beautifully illustrated History of British Birds;so that this species is confirmed as a rare visitant in England. Young.—The young, after the first moult, are said by to be of a dull white beneath, with grey bands,reddish-brown above, with brown semilunar markings ; thewings and tail blackish-brown. 505 LANIUS COLLURIO. THE RED-BACKEDSHRIKE. RED-BACKED BUTCHER-BIRD. Fig. 253. Lanius Collurio. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 136. Lanius Cullurio. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 69. Red-backed Shrike. Mont, Orn. Diet. Pie-griecbe Ecorcheur. Lanius Collurio. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 147. Red-backed Shrike. Lanius Collurio. Selb. lllustr. I. 150. Lanius Collurio. Red-backed Shrike. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 96. Male liltli the hack and iciag-coverts hroiLnish-red^ the croicnof the head, hind-neck, and rump ash-grey, the breast and sidesrose-coloured, a broad band of black from the bill to behind theear ; tail tchite, towards the end blackish-broicn, of which colourare the two middle feathers. Female with the upper parts red-dish-hroim, the hind-neck tinged icith greg ; the lower parts greg-ish-ichite, transverselg undidcUed tcith diiskg
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