WHITE-PLUMED SHRIKE. 249 



The naked skin surrounding the eyes is formed 

 precisely like that of the genus Perspicilla; its 

 outside is scalloped, and it encircles the eyes like 

 a pair of spectacles; both this and the feet are 

 bright yellow. The inner toe is not much shorter 

 than the outer one, but this latter is connected to 

 the middle toe at its base, while the other is free. 



Total length, 9 inches; bill, from the gape, 1 T ^ ; 

 wings, 5 (extending to near the middle of the 

 tail) ; tail, from the base, 4^ ; tarsus, 1 ; hind toe 

 and claw, ^ ; inner ditto, -f^ ; middle ditto, ^. 



WHITE-BODIED CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 



Ceblepyris perforates, SWAINS. 



Above cinereous; beneath, from the breast, pure white; 

 female with the chin white and the breast paler. 



Graucalus pectoralis, Jardine fy Selly, III. of Orn. pi. 57. 



THE Ceblepyrinas, or Caterpillar Catchers, constitute 

 the most aberrant* division of the family of Shrikes; 

 they are entirely confined to the warm latitudes of 

 the old world and of the Australian range. The 

 birds to which they are analogous, in Europe, are 

 the Orioles; both seek their food in the thick foliage 

 of lofty trees, and both have the same general con- 



* That is, the most distant from the type, which is here 

 the genus Lanius. 



