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Lanius cayamis, Gm.; Enl. 304 and 307; Vieill. Galer. 134; 

 Spix, 44, 1. Cinereous ; head, wings and tail, black. Its habits 

 are those of the Shrikes.(l) 



Graucalus,(2) Cuv. Choucaris, Buff. 



The beak less compressed than in the Shrikes; the upper ridge 

 is sharp pointed, and regularly arcuated, the commissure slightly 

 so. The feathers which sometimes cover their nostrils have caused 

 them to be referred to the Ravens, but the eraargination of their 

 beak removes them from that genus. From the remotest parts of 

 the Indian Ocean. (3) 



Bethylus, Cuv. (4) 



The beak stout, short, arched every where, slightly compressed 

 near the point. 



One species only is known, which, as to shape and colour, is 

 a miniature resemblance of the common European Magpie.(5) 



Falcunculus, Vieill. 



The beak compressed, neai'ly as high as it is long; the upper ridge 

 arcuated. 



The species known, Lanius front atus. Lath.; Second Suppl. 

 Col. 77; Vieill. Galer. 137, is of the size of the Finch, and 



(1) BufFon has improperly extended the name of Becarde, (Psahis, C.) to a 

 Tyrannus {Lan. sulfuratus), and to a Shrike closely allied to the Thrushes 

 {Lan. barbarus). Add Pachyrhynchus semlfasciaius, Spix, 44, 2, which is the 

 Psaris Cuvieri, Swains. the Psaris erythrogenis, Selby, Zool. Jour. I, p. 484. 

 The Pachyrhynchus, niger, Cuvieri, cinerascens, rufescens, Spix, 45 and 46, have 

 a smaller beak but the same form. 



(2) Graucalus, the Greek name of an ash-coloured Bird; three out of four of 

 these bein^ of this colour. Vieillot confounds them with his Coracina, which 

 compi'ize the Gymnoderus and Gymnocephalus, of which we shall speak hereafter. 



(3) Corvus papuensis, Gm.; Enl. 630; Vieill. Galer. 113. Corvusnovx Guineae, 

 Enl. 629. Corvus melanops. Lath. RolUer d masque woir, Vaill., Ois. de Par., &c. 

 86. Another, entirely of a brilliant violet of browned steel, the female greenish, 

 which forms the genus Piroll of Temm., or PTiLONORHTNCHtis of Kuhl, founded 

 on the head feathers being more like velvet. The genus Sphecothere of Vieill., 

 Galer. 147, Choucari vert of the Voy. du Freycinet, pi. xxi, only differs from the 

 others in being a little more naked about the eye. 



(4) Bethylus, the Greek name of an unknown Bird: Vieillot has changed it 

 into that of Pillurion or Cissopis. 



(5) It is the Pie-grieche, Vaill. Afr. 60, and Vieill. Galer, 140. Lanius leveri- 

 anus, Sh. Lanius picatus. Lath. Illiger makes a Tangara of it. We may approxi- 

 mate to it the Lan. corvinus, Sh.; Vaill. Afr. 78, the beak of which, however, is 

 more compressed. 



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