Identifier: birdsofgreatbrit02butl (find matches)
Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s not ofthe slightest value for aviculture as a singer, for although he both mocks welland sings industriously, he, by his call-notes, makes the other singers crazy withanxiety and fear, and thereby disturbs them in their song. One can only findit caged in the possession of peculiar fanciers, who mostly aim at completeness, inrespect of all birds belonging to this category. * From a long study of birds in confinement, I should imagine that Herr Rauschspeaks here theoretically, and not from experience: if the cry of a Shrike in acage is calculated to terrify a small song-bird in another cage, surely the smallsong-birds of South America ought to be alarmed by the cries of the Blue-beardedJay, or even those of the Sulphur Tyrant; yet they pay no more heed to them thanto the calls of perfectly innocent birds: I believe that predaceous species arerecognized by sight, more readily than by their voice. I imagine his iiuaiiiuji t Il Hiat tliey kct p all Passcrcs, whcllui iiitticstiiig or not.
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,.ACKED ^iHKn\! The Lesser Grev Shrike, The Red-Backed Shrike 9 Family—LAXIID.^.. The Lesser Grey Shrike. Lioiiits )iii>iof, Gjiel. THIS is so rare a straggler, on migration, to tlie English coast, that I hesitatedto describe it in the present work. In 1883, Seebohm mentioned thatonl)^ four examples had been recorded; and, at the end of i88g, HowardSaunders only enumerated six: it has since occurred at Dorking in 1886; nearBournemouth in 1900; at Docking (Norfolk), in 1902; near Chichester in 1905;near Whitby in 1906, and in Bedfordshire in 1907 : it is therefore, perhaps a pitythat a plate of it was not produced; still if everj^ straggler to our coasts wasdepicted it would add greatly to the expense of this work. Famtly—LANIID.E. The Red-Backed Shrike. Lanius coUurio, LiNN. SEEBOHM observes that this species is a summer visitor to the whole of thecontinent of Europe up to lat. 64°, with the exception of the Spanish pen-insula, where it is only an occasional straggler to the n

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