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Shrike

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A shrike or butcher bird called also mattages

A shrike or butcher bird written also matagasse

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any species of shrike of the genus Lanius so called because they impale their prey on thorns

A species of shrike

applied to a group of passerine birds having the bill notched and feeding chiefly on insects as the shrikes and vireos See Illust N under Beak

usually black with a deeply forked tail They are natives of Asia Africa and Australia called also drongo shrikes

Of or pertaining to the shrikes family Laniidaelig

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