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with minute white dots. All the under plumage, from the chia 

 to the vent, is crossed by numerous narrow bands of deep black 

 and white, arranged alternately. In the male these bands are 

 carried quite round the upper part of the neck, but in the female 

 they are, in this part, almost obsolete. The inale is further dis- 

 tinguished by the crown being glossy black and unspotted. The 

 tail is moderate and rounded, but the ends of the feathers are not 

 very obtuse, as in T. bicolor. Tarsi moderate, cinereous. Inner 

 wing-covers fulvous, banded with black lines. 



Total length 6^, bill -^-^^ wings 2^, tail 3, tarsi ^V 

 Obsekvations. — This seems a common bird, having been sent 

 from different parts of Equinoctial Brazil. I met with it in abun- 

 dance on the skirts of the forest of Urupe, frequenting low bushes 

 and trees, and feeding upon coleopterous and other insects found 

 among the foliage. Specimens of both sexes are in the British 

 Museum. 



4. TiiAMNOPHiLus torquaius. 



Rufous winged Bush-Shrike. 



T. griseus, infra albescens ; jugulo pectoreque lineis nigris fasci- 

 atis ; alis rufis, immaculatis ; caudd nigrdy rotundatd^ albo 

 maculatd. 



T. greyish, beneath whitish ; throat and breast banded by black 

 lines ; wings rufous, immaculate, tail black, rounded, spotted 

 with white. 



Habit of the Barred Shrike, but smaller, measuring only five 

 inches three-quarters ; its bill is less, and is likewise more com- 

 pressed. The crown, which is not crested, is covered by a deep 

 black patch, paler in front, and extending to the hind head. The 

 prevailing tint of the upper plumage, and also the sides of the 

 head, neck, and flanks, is cinereous grey. The zoings are alone ru- 

 fous, and unspotted; the tail is rounded, the feathers narrow, 

 slender, and obtuse at their extremities ; the middle pair wholly 

 black, the rest more or less crossed by interrupted bars of white, 

 and lipt with the same colour. The throat, sides of the head. 



