476 CLASS xvi. 



with scutes, posteriorly with naked skin or scales. Bill mostly 

 short, depressed at the base, often emarginate at the tip; gape of 

 mouth ample. 



Tityra VIEILL., GRAY, Psaris Cuv. 1 Bill shorter than head, 

 strong, with culmen rounded, curved. Nostrils lateral, rounded, 

 half-covered with short bristles. Wings with third and fourth 

 quills subequal, longest of all ; second quill in adult males short, 

 imperfect. Outer toes conjoined at the base. Claws compressed, 

 curved. Tail moderate, even or rounded. 



Sp. Tityra cayana GRAY, Lanius cayanus L., Tityra cinerea VIEILL., BUFF. 

 PL enl. 304, 377, LESSON Ornith. PI. 47, fig. 2, VIEILL. Gal. PI. 134; 

 whitish-grey, head, wings and tail black, Guiana; Tityra valida, Tityra 

 atricapilla VIEILL., Lanius validus LICHTENST., Tityra leuconota GRAY 

 Gener. PI. LXIII. Brasil ; of this last and some other species CABANIS forms 

 the genus Pachyrhamphus (GRAY), a name regarded by GRAY as synonymous 

 with Tityra. 



Bathmidurus CAB. 

 Sp. Tityra atricapilla, Lanius atricapittus GM. 



Tyrannus Cuv. (Sp. of Lanius and Musicapa L.) Bill of 

 various length, with tip hooked. Nostrils basal, lateral. Long- 

 bristles at the angle of mouth. Wings of males with the first 

 (three) quills narrowed towards the extremity, the third or fourth 

 mostly longest of all. Tarsi covered with transverse scutes, large, 

 produced beyond the outside posteriorly, with naked skin on the 

 inner surface. Outer toes conjoined at the base. Claws compressed, 

 curved. Tail in some even, broad towards the apex, forked in some. 



ScapJiorhynchus MAXIM. Bill a little longer than head, broad at 

 the base, inflated at the margin. Wings with second quill longest. 

 Tail even. 



Sp. Tyrannus pitangua Cuv., Lanius pitangua L., ScapJiorhynchus sulfuratus 

 MAXIM., BUFF. PI. enl. 212, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Ois. PL 17, fig. i, 

 Brasil. 



Saurophagus SWAINS., Apolites SUNDEV. Bill of the length of 

 head, straight, with culmen rounded, acute, with sides straight. 

 Wings with third, fourth and fifth quills subequal, fourth longest 

 of all. 



1 Psaris, a Greek name of a bird, according to CUVIER ; perhaps he meant \jsap6s, 

 and it ought then to be Psarus; but LATREILLE had already a genus Psarus amongst 

 the Diptera (i. p. 326). Of Tityra the etymology is unknown to me, but the name, 

 as more commonly received, it seems necessary now to retain. 



