88 Mr. Swainson's descriptions 



the first diyisioD of the group ; the bill is likewise a trifle smaller, 

 and is blackish brown. The Head is conspicuously crested ; the 

 whole of the upper plumage^ including the wings and tail, are of 

 a clear and uniform ferruginous or cinnamon colour ; the wing 

 covers above are marked by a narrow dusky line, close to their 

 extremities, which are somewhat brighter, and the same may be 

 observed on the lateral tail feathers^ the ends of which are some- 

 what pointed. All the under parts are white ; slightly tinged 

 with ferruginous on the sides. Inner web of the Quills brown. 

 Tarsi long, robust, and pale. 



Total length about 8|, bill, l-^^, wings, 3^2_^ tail, 3^, tarsi, 

 1-^. But for the circumstance of both my specimens being la- 

 belled males., I should have been inclined to suspect these birds 

 to be the females of T. bicolor. They were however found in a 

 different part of the country, and on referring to my notes, I 

 observe that at Humildez, where T. bicolor was very common, I 

 never met with cinnamomeus. 



I was never able to procure more than two specimens of this 

 rare bird, both of which were males. They were shot in the 

 forest of Urupe, in the province of Bahia. A third specimen is in 

 the British Museum. 



3. Thamnophilus fasdatus. 



Barred Bush-Shrike. 



T. supra rufus, infra nigra alboque fasdatus ; vertice maris 



nigroy fceminae rufo, 

 T. rufous above ; beneath banded by black and white ; crown 



in the male black, in the female rufous. • 



Barred Shrike. Latham, Syn. 2d Ed. Vol. 2. p. 87. 



A comparatively small species, not exceeding the size of a 

 Sparrow. The bill is strong, and unusually thick ; its colour is 

 black with the margins pale. In the females the crown of the 

 head (which is slightly crested,) together with all the upper plu- 

 mage, is of a deep and bright rufous ; the wings and tail are the 

 same, and unspotted j the sides of the head are black, freckled 



