114 Dr. Such's Descriptions of new Brazilian Birds. 



Fam. Laniad^. Vigors. 

 Genus. Gubernetes. Mihi. 



Generis Characteres. 



ilostrum crassum, subdepressum, basi sublatum, culmine rotun- 

 dato ; mandibula superiore apice leviter emarginata ; naribus 

 rotundis ; rictus vibrissis confertis, rigidis. 



Alee mediocres ; remigibus 1"" ad 5""" fere xqualibus, primS, 

 brevissima, secunda longissima, pogoniis externis, primae pogonio 

 «xcepto, in medio emarginatis, internis integris. 



Pedes; tarsis mediocribus ; acrotarsiis paratarsiisque scutella- 

 tis ; plantis reticulatis, squamis ovalibus. 



Cauda longissima, foriicata. 



CunniNghami. G. cine7\iceiis, longitudinaliler fusco-lineatusy 

 guld crissoque albis, fascia lunulari pectorali puipurascenti- 

 brunnea, alls caudaque brunnescenti-nigris ; remigibus lon- 

 gitudinaliler ferruginee-fasciatis. 



Tab. iv. 



Capitis^ dorsi, abdominisque plumarum rhaches fusci. Tectrices 

 inferiores albas. Remiges brurinescenti-nigra; prima! pogonio ex- 

 terno albo, S'^^ ad 7'^^'^ pogoniis externis in medio ferrugineis, 

 internis ad basin albidis. Rectricium rhaches superne nigri sub- 

 tus albi, primae pogonio externo ad basin albo. Rostrum brun- 

 neura. Pedes nigri. Longitndo corporis, rostro caudaque in- 

 clusis, 15 I ; alee a carpo ad remigem ^^^m^ _^_ ; rectricis imae 10 |, 

 2<1« 7 I, 3tiffi 4 ^, 4** 3 I, 5tse 3 |, 6*^ 2 -j%; rostri ad frontem 

 i|^, ad rictum, 1 -^-^ ; tarsi, 1 ^. 



This bird appears to have a considerable affinity to the genus 

 Psaris of M. Cuvier in the structure of its bill and wings, but it 

 differs from it by other such essential characters as to have in- 

 duced me to place it in a separate genus. Besides the difference in 

 the structure of the tail, an important character in the present 

 group of birds, which still retain some of the powers of flight 

 belonging to the Fissirostres, the following differences may be 

 noticed between the two forms. The rictal bristles of my bird 



