114 Dr, Suck's Descriptions of new Brazilian Birds. 



Fam. Laniad^. Vigors. 

 Genus. Gubernetes. Mihi. 



Generis Characteres. 



Rostrum crassum, subdepressum, basi sublatum, culmine rotun- 

 dato ; mandibula superiore apice leviter emarginata ; naribus 

 rotundis ; rictus vibrissis confertis, rigidis. 



jilee mediocres ; remJgibus 1""' ad 5'*" fere ajqualibus, prima 

 brevissim^, secunda longissim^, pogoniis externis, primaj pogonio 

 ^xcepto, in medio emarginatis, internis integris. 



Pedes; tarsis mediocribus ; acrotarsiis paratarsiisque scutella- 

 tis; plantis reticulatis, squamis ovalibus. 



Cauda longissima, forficata. 



CuNNiNGHAMi. G, clneruceus^ hngitudinaliter fusco-lineatus^ 

 gula crissoque albis, fascia lunulari pectorali purpurascenti- 

 hrunnea^ atis cauddque brunnescenti-nigris ; remigibus Ion- 

 gitudinaliterferrugineQ-fasciatis, 



Tab. iv. 

 Capitis^ dorsi, abdominisque plumarum rhaches fusci. Tedrices 

 inferiores albae. Remiges brunnescenti-nigrai primae pogonio ex- 

 terno albo, 3*® ad T'^am pogoniis externis in medio ferrugineis, 

 internis ad basin albidis. Rectricium rhaches superne nigri sub- 

 tus albi, primae pogonio externo ad basin albo. Rostrum brun- 

 neum. Pedes nigri. Longitudo corporis^ rostro cauddque in- 

 clusis, 15 |- ; alee a carpo ad remigem ^d&rn^ Jl ; rectricis \^^ 10 |, 

 2da3 7 1^ 3tijB 4 ^o_^ 4tae 3 |^ 5tae 31^ gtae 2 ^; rostri ad frontem 

 |.^, ad rictum, 1 -^3^; tarsi^ 1 _?^. 



This bird appears to have a considerable affinity to the genus 

 Psaris of M. Cuvier in the structure of its bill and wings, but it 

 diifers from it by other such essential characters as to have in- 

 duced me to place it in a separate genus. Besides the difference in 

 the structure of the tail, an important character in the present 

 group of birds, which still retain some of the powers of flight 

 belonging to the Fissirostresy the following differences may be 

 noticed between the two forms. The rictal bristles of my bird 



