fiscal

From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.

Procurator fiscal
procurator fiscal#English

(Scots law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.


shrike

From Middle English *schrike, *schryke, from Old English sċrīc (“shrike, thrush”), from the same root as shriek and screech, named after the bird's cry. Compare Icelandic skríkja (“shrieker, shrike”), Swedish skrika (“jay”).

Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.


loggerhead

From logger (“(dialectal) heavy wooden block secured to a horse's leg to prevent it from straying”) + head. Logger was apparently coined because its sound connotes a clumsy, heavy object; compare log (“trunk of a dead tree; bulky piece of wood”).

compound

[…] I have received here also one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not borealis or excubitoroides, that is the species referred to. […] So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly of the New England States.

1879 April, T[homas] M[ayo] Brewer, “General Notes. [The Loggerhead Shrike (Colluro ludovicianus) Breeding in Northern New England.]”, in Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume IV, number 2, Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the [Nuttall Ornithological] Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

Lanius ludovicianus
Lanius ludovicianus#Translingual

Used as the name of various animals with large heads.

The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North America.


great grey shrike

en-noun

great grey shrike (plural great grey shrikes)

Lanius excubitor
Lanius excubitor#Translingual


red-backed shrike

red-backed shrike (plural red-backed shrikes)

Lanius collurio
Lanius collurio#Translingual

A medium-sized bird (Lanius collurio) of the shrike family that breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa, eating large insects, small birds, voles, and lizards.


butcherbird

From butcher + bird, from its habit of hanging its prey.

(US) Any of the shrikes in the genus Lanius.


Jacky Hanger

(South Africa) The fiscal shrike Lanius collaris


Jacky Hangman

(South Africa) The Fiscal shrike Lanius collaris


bokmakierie

The remarkable Bokmakierie is endemic to the Southern African region, and is found on broken ground in the cooler parts of the country. It has adapted to the urban environment, and is a common garden bird in many towns and cities. The Bokmakierie has a wide range of ringing duets.

1998, Andy Swash, http://www.birding.co.za/gallery/746.htm

A shrike endemic to Southern Africa, with olive upper parts, a yellow underside, and a deep black gorget.


woodchat

Lanius senator
Lanius senator#Translingual

Lanius senator, a medium-sized migratory passerine bird of the shrike family.


nine-killer

The bird was believed to kill and impale on thorns nine birds, etc., in succession.

Lanius borealis
Lanius borealis#Translingual

(archaic) The northern shrike (Lanius borealis).


wariangle

wariangles (plural)
warriangle (alternative)

From Middle English wariangel, weryangle, possibly from Old English *weargincel with the second element reanalyzed as *weargengel. Compare Old English wearg (“outlaw, criminal”), German Würgengel (“destroying angel, destroyer, killer”), -incel (“diminutive suffix”) and English worry.

cog

This was Charles Albert de Luines, a gentleman of the country of Avignon, who was introduced to a familiarity with Louis XIII. by breaking wariangles to catch sparrows.

1768, Adrien Richer, Great events from little causes. Or, A selection of interesting and entertaining stories, drawn from the histories of different nations, etc, page 204:

[…] the young monarch when he was one day amusing himself with his wariangles, that being upwards of fixteen years of age, he was capable of taking the reins of government into his own hands, and that he ought to shake off the yoke which his mother and Concini had imposed on him[…]

1792, The Historical magazine; or, Classical library of public events, page 182:

[page 95:] '[…] what is that bird?' 'It is a shrike, a great grey shrike. Some say wariangle.' [page 104:] '[…] There is your wariangle again, carrying a mouse, upon my word.' Stephen spoke of shrikes he had known [page 117:] […] to make his apologies to Sophie: 'he had been contemplating on wariangles, and had overlooked the time.'

2011 December 5, Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 95-117:

By one rill, where low tangled hawthorn and gorse grew among the long sea grass, she found a row of tiny wrens and mouse pups spiked on thorns: the work of the wariangle, the butcher-bird. She walked half a mile inland,[…]

2013 November 12, Nicola Griffith, Hild: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 347:

(UK, largely obsolete, rare outside dialects) Any of various aggressive shrikes of the genus Lanius, such as the red-backed shrike or great grey shrike, sometimes known as butcherbirds.


laniid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Laniidae; a shrike.


loggerhead shrike

en-noun

loggerhead shrike (plural loggerhead shrikes)

A species of shrike native to North America, Lanius ludovicianus.


murderbird

For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird.


red-tailed shrike

red-tailed shrike (plural red-tailed shrikes)

Lanius phoenicuroides
Lanius phoenicuroides#Translingual

Lanius phoenicuroides, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was formerly considered conspecific with the isabelline shrike and the red-backed shrike.


isabelline shrike

isabelline shrike (plural isabelline shrikes)

Lanius isabellinus
Lanius isabellinus#Translingual

Lanius isabellinus, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was formerly considered conspecific with the red-tailed shrike and the red-backed shrike.


brown shrike

Lanius cristatus
Lanius cristatus#Translingual

Lanius cristatus, a bird in the shrike family (Lanius) that is found mainly in Asia. It is closely related to the red-backed shrike (L. collurio) and isabelline shrike (L. isabellinus).


long-tailed shrike

long-tailed shrike (plural long-tailed shrikes)

Lanius schach
Lanius schach#Translingual

Lanius schach, a member of the shrike family (Laniidae), mainly found in Asia.


northern shrike

northern shrike (plural northern shrikes)

Lanius borealis, a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae) native to North America and Siberia.


lesser grey shrike

lesser grey shrike (plural lesser grey shrikes)

Lanius minor, a member of the shrike family Laniidae.


masked shrike

Lanius nubicus
Lanius nubicus#Translingual

Lanius nubicus, a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).


woodchat shrike

woodchat shrike (plural woodchat shrikes)

Lanius senator, a species in the shrike family (Laniidae).


mountain shrike

mountain shrike (plural mountain shrikes)

Lanius validirostris
Lanius validirostris#Translingual

Lanius validirostris, a small bird endemic to the Philippines.


grey-backed fiscal

grey-backed fiscal (plural grey-backed fiscals)

Lanius excubitoroides
Lanius excubitoroides#Translingual

Lanius excubitoroides, a species of bird in the family Laniidae.


magpie shrike

The African bird Urolestes melanoleucus.


African long-tailed shrike

African long-tailed shrike (plural African long-tailed shrikes)