Whiskered shrike, Lanius mystaceus. "A made up bird, composed of the Lanius ferrugineus, with the belly and tail feathers of a species of Psittacus and breast and vent feathers of a species of Malaconotus. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.

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