528 CLASS xvi. 



phcenicoptera TEMM. PL col. 450, Faun. Japon., Av. Tab. 44. This species 

 has no horny plates on the wings. 



Family XLIX. Laniince. (Laniadce D'ORB. and LAFKESN., 

 CABAN.) Primaries mostly ten (with first short, more rarely very 

 short), in a few nine. Wing-coverts short. Tarsi moderate or 

 short, covered anteriorly with transverse scutes, at the sides with a 

 continuous scute. Bill short or moderate, strong, compressed, 

 emarginate towards the tip or furnished with a tooth on each side. 



Edolius Guv., Dicrurus VIEILL., GRAY. Bill moderate, thick, 

 broad at the base, with culmen keeled, bent, compressed towards 

 the tip, emarginate. Upper mandible produced beyond the lower. 

 Long bristles at the base of bill. Nostrils basal, lateral, rounded, 

 covered by bristles and plumules. Wings somewhat long, with 

 first three quills gradually longer, fourth and fifth longest of all. 

 Tail with ten feathers, elongate, almost always forked. Feet short. 



Sp. Edolius balicassius, Corvus balicassius L., BUFF. PI. enl. 603, Malacca; 

 Edolius cristatus, Lanius forficatus L., BUFF. PL enl. 189, Madagascar; 

 Edolius malabaricus, Lanius malabaricus LATH., SONNER. Voy. aux Ind. 

 Or. PI. 97; Cuv. R. Ani, ed. ill, Ois. PI. 23, fig. i ; Edolius remifer 

 TEMM. Pl.^col. 178. In the two last-named Indian species the outer tail- 

 feather in the male is very long, and in the last is more than twice the 

 length of the body ; these two outermost feathers are vaned only at the 

 extremity. In Edolius remifer the tail, with the exception of the outer 

 feather, is even at the extremity. The colour of most of the species 

 is black with steel-blue reflections. 



Irena HORSF. (Species of Graucalus Cuv.) Bill moderate, 

 strong, broad at the base, compressed towards the tip, emarginate, 

 with culmen keeled, curved. Nostrils lateral, covered by plumules 

 and bristles. Bristles at the base and angle of mouth. Tarsi 

 short, scutellate. Wings with first quill narrow, short, the third a 

 little shorter than fourth and fifth, which are longest of all. Tail 

 moderate or somewhat short, broad, even, with twelve feathers. 



Sp. Irena puella HORSF., Zool. Researches in Java, I. 1821, Coracias puella 

 LATH., TEMM. PL col. 70 male, 225 fern., 426 young bird; from Malacca, 

 Sumatra, &c. ; dark black with clear cobalt-blue on the back and on the 

 top of the head; Irena cyanogaster VIG., GRAY Gen. of Birds, PI. LXX. 

 Manilla. 



Trichophorus TEMM., Trichas GLOGER (not SWAINS.). Bill 

 short or moderate, elongate and conical, somewhat broad at the 



