214 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Honsrrarp's Description of the 
This group, which by its straight and rather lengthened bill. 
appears to come into the subfamily of Thamnophilina among the 
Shrikes, may probably be considered the representative in Aus- 
tralia of the South American Thamnophili and the African Mala- 
conoti. From both those genera it differs in its entirely even 
tail ; in its wings being comparatively longer, although rounded 
as in those genera ; and in the paratarsia being entire instead of 
being furnished with either large but distant, or small but nu- 
merous, scales. We have been enabled to ascertain nothing of 
the habits of the group: but its general appearance points out 
the situation we at present assign it; while at the same time it 
has also some general resemblance to the neighbouring family 
of the Thrushes. The present subfamily, it is to be observed, is - 
that which connects the Laniade with the last-mentioned family 
Merulide : and this approaching conformity to the Thrushes in 
the birds which compose the extreme and connecting group of 
the Shrikes is therefore to be expected. We have assigned the 
genus a name indicative of these approaching affinities. 
1. CINEREA. Coll. supra cinerea, subtus pallidior, gulá regione- 
que anteoculari albidis, remigibus interné fuscis. 
Foem. Subtus cinerescens, gulá nigro-striatá, rostro flavescente. 
Dorsum brunnescens. Ptila inferiora albida; pteromata infe- 
riora cana fusco-variegata. Rostrum pedesque nigri. Lon- 
gitudo corporis, 82; ale a carpo ad remigem quintam, 4-2, ; 
caudæ,4}; rostri ad frontem, 44, ad rictum, 144, ; tarsi, &. 
Mr. Caley has noted these two birds as sexes of the same 
species. He adds, that they frequented at times the neighbour- 
hood of his house, and were found in the green wattle-trees. — 
The eyes he described as black. The weight of the male was 
21 ounces. 3 
Genus. 
