BIRDS. INSECTIVOILE. 



S. superbus, 11%. Plumage above fine black; throat with a scarlet 

 spot, tinged at its extremity with yellow ; a yellow band across 

 the abdomen, with reddish streaks ; quill-feathers slightly edged 

 with white ; rump greenish yellow ; bill strong, gray, with an 

 upright crest of long narrow" feathers ; legs black. Size of a 

 Thrush. Inhabits South Sea Islands. Shaw, vii. pi. 39. 



Gen. 11. OCYPTERUS, Cuv. Tern. (Leptopteryx, Horsfield.) 

 Bill slightly depressed at the base, compressed and notched at 

 the point ; upper mandible convex above, bent at the point ; 

 nostrils lateral, distant from the base, pierced in the corneous 

 mass, concealed by the short hairs of the base ; legs and toes 

 short ; wings long, the second and third feathers equal and 

 longest. 



O. viridis, Tern. (Lanius viridis, Lath.) Plumage dull green above, 

 white beneath ; with blackish wings and tail. 5 inches long. In- 

 habits Madagascar Shaw, vii. 321. 



O. leucorynchos, Tern. (Lanius, Lath.) Plumage blackish above, 

 beneath and rump white. 7 inches long. Inhabits Philippine 

 Islands. Shaw, vii. 323. 



Gen. 12. TRICOPHOEUS, Tern. 



Bill short, strong, conical, compressed at its point, and widen- 

 ed a little at its base; upper mandible bent towards the point, 

 which is slightly notched ; base of the bill with strong and 

 long bristles ; legs short ; tarsus shorter than the middle toe, 

 the external toe united to the second joint ; fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth wing-feathers longest. 



T. barbatus, Tern. Plumage above green, glossed on the back with 

 ash ; tail tinged with reddish ; feathers of the throat long, form- 

 ing a beard, clear yellow, with the shafts yellowish ; under parts 

 ashy-green ; edges of the upper mandible with long bristles or 

 hairs, and the occiput and upper part of the neck with eight or 

 ten bristles. 8 inches long. Inhabits Africa. Shaw, xiii. pi. 29. 



Gen. 13. EDOLIUS, Cuv. Dicrurus, Vieill. 



Bill strong, depressed at the base, compressed and notched at 

 the end, upper mandible convex, bent, and a little crooked 

 at the point ; the lower straight, turned up at the point ; base 

 furnished with long stiff hairs ; nostrils basal, lateral, half co- 

 vered with feathers and long hairs ; legs slender, short ; wings 

 with the fourth, fifth, and sixth feathers longest ; tail more 

 or less forked. 



1&.forjicatus, Tern. (Lanius forficatus, Lath.) Plumage greenish- 

 black, with upright frontal crest and forked tail ; bill and legs 

 black. Inhabits China, Madagascar, Set. Buff. PL Enl 169. 



E. Malabaricus, Tern. (Lanius f Shaw.) Plumage deep black, with 



