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BUFOUS-EARED BLACK-CAP 

 Psaris erythrogenys, SELBY. 



PLATE III. 







Cinereous-grey above; whitish beneath; front and sides of 

 the head rufous ; wings and tail black. 



Psaris erythrogenys, &%, Zool. Journal, ii. 483 lUud. of 

 Orn. i. under pi. 10. 



THE first intimation of this species was given by Mr. 

 Selby, who observed it in the museum at Paris, 

 where we subsequently drew and described it. 

 Latterly, however, a specimen has come into our 

 possession, but it must still be considered a very 

 rare species, since we have not yet met with it in 

 any of our public collections. It has been thought, 

 indeed, to be the young of the Lanius inquisitor of 

 Olfers ; but I am by no means inclined to adopt this 

 opinion, not only because there is no analogous in- 

 stance of rufous changing into black merely upon 

 one part of the head, but because a specimen of the 

 adult male of the true inquisitor, forwarded to me 

 from Berlin by Professor Lichtenstein, differs mate- 

 rially in its dimensions from our erythrogenys* That 



