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Brown shrike 
(Bách thanh nâu or Bách thanh mày trắng, Lanius cristatus)

The brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) is a bird in the shrike family Laniidae that is found mainly in Asia.

Trait: Like most other shrikes, it has a distinctive black "bandit-mask" through the eye and eyeline, white brow (above), ruffous cap which extends to neck, long square tail.
Habitats: found mainly in open scrub.

Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".
cristatus: From Latin crista (“the comb or tuft on the head of animals; tuft of leaves on plants; crest of a helmet”).

Bull-headed shrike 
(Bách thanh đầu hung, Lanius bucephalus)

The bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the shrike family Laniidae.
The bird breeds in north-east China, Korea, Japan and far-eastern Russia. 
Northern birds migrate south for the winter with a few reaching southern China, sighted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. 

Traits:
- Black-eyelined;
- Brown-headed and brown-naped;
- White-throated;

Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".
bucephalus:
 Cephalus: Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos means "head".
 bous bull, ox; kephale head

Burmese Shrike 
(Bách thanh nhỏ, Lanius collurioides)

The Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides) is a species of bird in the family Laniidae. 
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Grey-backed shrike 
(Bách thanh lưng xám, Lanius tephronotus)

The grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus) is a bird in the family Laniidae inhabiting South-east Asia.

Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".
tephronota, tephronotum, tephronotus: Greek tephros ash-coloured; -notos-backed (noton back).

Lanius, the typical shrikes, are a genus of passerine birds in the shrike family Laniidae. The majority of the family's species are placed in this genus.

Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".

1/ Long-tailed shrike or rufous-backed shrike (Bách thanh đuôi dài, Lanius schach)
2/ Bull-headed shrike (Bách thanh đầu hung, Lanius bucephalus)
3/  Brown shrike (Bách thanh nâu or Bách thanh mày trắng, Lanius cristatus)
4/ Burmese shrike (Bách thanh nhỏ, Lanius collurioides)
5/ tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (Bách thanh vằn, Lanius tigrinus)

6/ Grey-backed shrike (Bách thanh lưng xám, Lanius tephronotus)

Long-Tailed Shrike
Rufous-Backed Shrike 
(Bách thanh đuôi dài, Lanius schach)

The long-tailed shrike or rufous-backed shrike (Lanius schach) is a member of the bird family Laniidae, the shrikes.

Tiger shrike 
or thick-billed shrike 
( Bách thanh vằn, Lanius tigrinus)

The tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (Lanius tigrinus) is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus Lanius in the shrike family, Laniidae. 
The bird's range extends from south-east China south through eastern Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to Malaysia and Indonesia.