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Lanius cayanus, Gm. ; Enl! 304 and 3073; Vieill. Galer. 134; 
Spix, 44, 1. Cinereous ; head, wings and tail, black. Its habits 
are those of the Shrikes.(1) 
Gravcatus,(2) Cuy.—Cuovcaris, Buff. 
The beak less compressed than in the Shrikes; the upper ridge 
is sharp pointed, and regularly arcuated, the commissure slightly 
so. The feathers which sometimes cover their nostrils have caused 
them to be referred to the Ravens, but the emargination of their 
beak removes them from that genus. From the remotest parts of 
the Indian Ocean.(3) 
Beruytus, Cuy.(4) 
The beak stout, short, arched every where, slightly compressed 
near the point. 
' _ One species only is known, which, as to shape and colour, is 
a miniature resemblance of the common European Magpie. (5) 
Fatcuncuuus, Vieill. 
The beak compressed, nearly as high as it is long; the upper ridge 
- arcuated. . 
. The species known,—Lanius frontatus, Lath.; Second Suppl. 
Col. 77; Vieill. Galer. 137, is of the size of the Finch, and 
bs) 
(1) Buffon has improperly extended the name of Bécarde, (Psarts, C.) to a 
Tyrannus (Lan. sulfuratus), and to a Shrike closely allied to the Thrushes 
(Lan. barbarus). Add Pachy yrhynchus semifasciatus, Spix, 44, 2, which is the 
Psaris Cuvieri, Swains.—the Psaris erythrogenis, Selby, Zool. Jour. I, p. 484.— 
The Pachyrhynchus, niger, Cuvieri, cinerascens, rufescens, Spix, 45 and 46, have 
a smaller beak but the same form. 
(2) Graucalus, the Greek name of an ash- coloured Bird; three out of four of 
these being of this colour. Vieillot confounds them with his Coracrna, which 
_comprize the Gymnoderus and Gymnocephalus, of which we shall speak hereafter. 
(S) Corvus papuensis, Gm.; Enl, 630; Vieill. Galer. 113.—Corvus nove Guinex, 
Enl. 629.—Corvus melanops, Lath—Rollier a masque noir, Vaill., Ois. de Par., &e. 
86.—Another, entirely of a brilliant violet of browned steel, the female greenish, 
which forms the genus Prroxtxt of Temm., or Pritonoruyncuvs of Kuhl, founded 
on the head feathers being more like velvet. The genus SpnecotuErs of Vieill., 
Galer. 147, Choucari vert of the Voy. du Freycinet, pl. xxi, only differs from the 
others in being a little more naked about the eye. 
(4) Bethylus, the Greek name of an ae Bird: Vieillot has changed it 
into that of Pillurion or Crssorts. 
* (5) It is the Pie-griéche, Vaill. Afr. 60, and Vieill. Galer, 140. Zanius leveri- 
anus, Sh. Lanius picatus, Lath. Wliger makes a Tangara of it. Wemay approxi- 
mate to it the Lan. corvinus, Sh.; Vaill. Afr. 78, the beak of which, however, is 
more compressed. 
Vou. L.—2H 
