80 PTERYLOGRAPHY. 



A. WitJt twelve rectricc*. 

 ft. Saddle without a xpace. 



1. Barita. Twenty remiges; first four graduated, fourth and fifth the longest. Dilatation 

 of the pectoral tract somewhat separated at the extremity ; saddle short, broadly rhombic, acute- 

 angled. B. strepera, B. destructor, B. varia. 



2. Thamnopldlus seu Vaiiga. I have examined only the large and beautiful typical species, 

 which has been repeatedly described, T. striatus QUOT et GAIMARD (' Voy. de Freycinet,' PL 18 

 and 19 ; T. vic/orsii SUCH, ' Zool. Journ.,' iv, 554 ; Lanius undulatus MIKAN, ' Delect. Flor. et Faun. 

 Brasil. ;' Lanius procerus, Mus. BEROL.) It has twenty remiges, which are all very broad and 

 obtuse, graduated as far as the fifth, which is of the same length as the sixth and seventh. The 

 dilatation of the pectoral band is somewhat separated, and the saddle is heart-shaped reversed, 

 emitting a single row of feathers from its middle as the commencement of the rump-band. 



3. Lanius. Besides the indigenous species, all of which have a broadly rhombic, posteriorly 

 abbreviated saddle, and nineteen remiges, I have examined L. phcenicurus (E. Indies), L. phi- 

 matus SHAW, L. brubu LIGHT., L. ffuianensis LIGHT., L. scapulatus LIGHT., and La Cravatte 

 llanclie LE VAILL., PI. 115. In all, the first primary is very small, and the second also per- 

 ceptibly abbreviated. In the last-mentioned three species, the first three are graduated, and the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth are the longest ; in the others, on the contrary, the third is the longest, and 

 the two following ones approach it most nearly. Our indigenous species agree with this second 

 condition, but in L. excubitor the first primary is much larger than in the other three species. 



4. Ceblepyris (Graucalus et Campephagd). Dilatation of the pectoral tract somewhat 

 separated at the end ; saddle much elongated, rhombic, narrow ; rump-band remarkably broad : 

 nineteen remiges ; the first very short, the fourth the longest. C. nova-guinea, C. viridis 

 (Graucalus, QUOY et GAIMARD, /S^eco^mz, VIEILL.). C. fimbriata has a somewhat broader 

 saddle. 



5. Ocypterus leucorrhynchits Cuv. Pterylosis of the preceding ; saddle narrow, but widened 

 by the two powder-down tracts situated beside it ; another similar tract is placed near the lumbar 

 band, and at the extremity of the dilatation of the pectoral tract (Plate III, fig. 4). Twenty 

 remiges : the first quite minute ; the second, third, and fourth the longest, and comparatively 

 very long. Contour-feathers without an aftershaft. 



6. Trichophorus barbatus TEMM., PL Col, 88. Pterylosis of the Lanii, especially the broad 

 saddle, obtuse behind, from the middle of which issues a rump-band which is at first very weak. 

 Nineteen remiges : the first rather short ; the following, as far as the fourth, graduated ; and the 

 fourth and fifth the longest. The remarkable, bristle-like feathers of the nape and vertex, which 

 also occur in Edolius crinitus, are very long filoplumes. (See p. 15.) 



7. Muscicapa. Besides the indigenous species M. luctuosa and M. grisola, I have examined 

 M. ruticilla and M. carulea, as also M. maJabarica and M. bambuscc, with long, graduated tails 

 ( Acis LESS.), and some similar species which could not be exactly determined. All have a simple 

 saddle, and this is frequently narrow and lanceolate, as in M. carulea and M. malabarica. It is 

 broad, and obtuse behind, as in the Lanii in M. bambusa and ruticilla ; uniformly rhombic, 

 with acute lateral angles in M. Inctuosa and grisola. In the latter, as also in M. ccerulea, bambusce, 



