466 Mr. Swainson on New Australasian Birds. 



all events, will secure to this country in some measure the credit 

 of making known the natural productions of her own possessions. 



Ceblepyris lineatus. 



Tribe. Dentiroslres. Cuvier. 

 Family. Laniadae. Mi hi. 

 Division. Ceblepyrina. Id. 



C. ctnereus; pectore corporeque infra albis lineis frequentibus 



transversis nigris variis ; rectricibus nigris. 

 Cinereous ; breast and body beneath white, banded by narrow 



black lines ; tail feathers black. 



According to the distribution I have already proposed of the 

 family of Laniadce, the genus Ceblepyris of modern authors 

 forms one of the five divisions of that group. Among the species 

 already known to us, we find a considerable variation in the 

 strength and size of their bills, but their structure in every other 

 respect, (in such as I have had the opportunity of examining,) 

 presents so few deviations of character, that I shall refrain, at pre- 

 sent, from proposing any subdivisions of the group. 



Total length about ten inches, bill moderate, the culmen cari- 

 nated. The general colour of all the upper plumage, and of the 

 chin and throat beneath, is light cinereous ; the breast and all the 

 under parts of the body, as well as the inner wing coverts are white, 

 closely banded by narrow transverse lines of a deep black colour : 

 the space between the bill and eye is also black. The wings are 

 moderately long and pointed ; the quills are black, with the exte- 

 rior half of the outer webs cinereous, and margined by a narrow 

 line of whitish : the first quill is half as long as the second, which 

 is again shorter than the third, and this last is very nearly as long 

 as the fourth. The tail is black and obsoletely rounded, the two 

 middle feathers cinereous at their base. Two specimens of this 

 apparently undescribed species belong to Mr. Brogden. 



Total length 10 inches ', bill nearly 1 inch from the gape ; tail 4, 

 wings 5| inches. 



