PH@NICOTHRAUPIS.—LANIO. 303 
4. Phenicothraupis salvini. 
Phenicothraupis salvini, Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 4877. 
Phenicothraupis rubicus, Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 5492? 
Pheenicothraupis fuscicauda, Lawr. Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 19*? 
Phenicothraupis rubicoides, Boucard, P. Z. S. 18838, p. 443+. 
P. fuscicaude affinis sed undique magis rubescens, gula coccinea haud distincte circumdata et abdomine magis 
rubro distinguenda. 
2 brunnea fere unicolor, capite haud cristato, gula et abdomine medio ochraceis. (Descr. maris et feminz ex 
Chisec, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Muxico, hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast?), Guichicovi (Swmichrast 3), 
Ivalam in Yucatan (Gaumer*); British Honpuras, Corosal (Roe), Belize 
(Llancaneaux) ; GuateMaua, Chisec (0. 8S. & F. D. G.). 
It.is probably this species that is referred to by Sumichrast as Phenicothraupis 
rubicus in his paper on the Birds of Vera Cruz, as he also mentions the presence of 
P. rubicoides in the same country. The bird called P. fuscicauda by Mr. Lawrence, 
from Tehuantepec, certainly belongs here, and it too was accompanied by P. rubi- 
coides. Count von Berlepsch expresses some doubt as to the name of a young male 
from Tehuantepec, sent us by the late Professor Sumichrast; but an adult male 
kindly supplied to us by M. Boucard from the same source proves that P. salvini is 
certainly found in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 
The range of this species, therefore, includes Southern Mexico. In Yucatan and in 
the neighbourhood of Belize it also occurs, as we have several male examples from 
there. It is also to be found in the forests of Northern Vera Paz, which stretch from 
Coban in the south to the confines of Peten in the north, as from nearly the centre of 
this district we have specimens of both sexes, as well as of a young male. 
The female of P. salvini has no crest; in this respect it agrees with that sex in P. 
Suscicauda, of which it is a northern form. The male of P. salvini may easily be dis- 
tinguished from that of P. rubicoides, with which it is often found associated, by the 
absence of the dark lateral margin to the crest, by its brighter throat, and the rather 
greyer cast of the plumage of the upper surface. 
LANIO. 
Lanio, Vieillot, Anal. p. 40 (1816) ; Scl. P. Z.S. 1856, p. 118. 
Five species constitute this genus, three of which are peculiar to our region, viz. 
LI. aurantius of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras; L. leucothorax of Nica- 
ragua and Eastern Costa Rica; and L. melanopygius of Western Costa Rica and the 
State of Panama. The extreme range of Zanio in the latter State is the mountains in 
the neighbourhood of Santa Fé; it is not found in the low-lying forests of the line of 
railway. In South America two distinct species occur—one, L. atricapillus, having a 
