PLILIOGONYS cinereus. female. 



Family Laniadae. Sub-family Ceblepyrinae. 

 Generic Character. See Zool. Journ. No. 10, p. 164. 



Specific Character. 



Head suh-crestcd ; body above cinerous, tinged tvith grey brown, 

 beneath ferrtiginous ; belly ichite ; under fail covers bright 

 yellow; lateral tail feathers ivith an internal white band. 

 Female. 



Ptiliogonys cinereus. Cat. of 3Iex. Mns. Jpp. p. 4. (1824.) 



Ptiliogonys (not Ptiliogonatns,) cinereus. Zool. Journ. No. 10, 



p. 164. Phil. Mag. and Annals. June 1827, p. 367. 

 Piroll velaute. PI. Col. p. 422. 



Mus. Nost. 



Although not particularly striking in its plumage, this is 

 one of the most interesting birds, to the ornithologist, which 

 has yet been gleaned from the little known regions of 

 Mexico. Closely allied, by its short and broad bill to the 

 Flycatchers, it is principally distinguished from them by 

 the absence of those bristles round the mouth, which almost 

 invariably belong to purely insectivorous birds. Its very 

 short, robust, and feathered tarsi, the profile of the bill, 

 construction of the wing, and even the colouring of the 

 plumage, all remind us of the Ceblepyrinae or Catterpillar- 

 catchers, and point to that group as containing its true af- 

 finities : a group, however, which is in such confusion, 

 that we venture not to hazard any speculations on the pre- 

 cise station of this curious genus. 



If the authors of the Planches Coloriees, will consult the 

 Philosophical Magazine for July 1827, (one of the oldest 

 and best of our scientific Journals), "they will find that this, 

 and most of the birds from Mexico, which they are now de- 

 scribing as we«^, were long ago named and charactized by ua. 

 Our list, indeed, of all those brought over by Mr. Bullock, 

 was printed with the catalogue, in 1824, when one of the 

 Authors was himself in England, and viewed the collection. 



