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If you
will permit a tangential thought. I had thought the "shrike" was a
magpie, and the South Australian "piping shrike" was a magpie ....was it in fact
intended to be a butcher-bird?
Murray
Delahoy
The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.) offers
In Australia: (see quots.).
1860 G . Bennett Gather.
of Naturalist 283 The Australian Shrike or Butcher-bird, also called
Rain-bird by the colonists (Vanga destructor).
1898 Morris Austral Eng. s.v., The
rain-bird of Queensland and the interior is the great Cuckoo or
Channel-bill.
roger
curnow
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