PLILIOGONYS cinereus. male. 

 Yellow-vented Short-foot. 



Family Laniadae. Sub-fam. Tyranninae. Genus Pliliogonys. Nob. 



Generic Character. 



Zool. Journ. no. 10. p. 164. 



Specific Character. 



Light cinereous ; flanks olive; under tail covers bright yellow; 

 quills and tail glossy blue-black, the latter ornamented with a 

 central snowy band ; chin and vent white. 



For Synonyms — see pi 62. 



On the sixty-second plate of these Illustrations, we figured 

 the female of this elegant and highly interesting bird, 

 from a specimen sent to us from Mexico, by the late 

 Mr. W. Bullock. We are now enabled to add the male 

 from a line example, obligingly presented to us by 

 John Taylor Esq. F. R. S. It was killed near Real del 

 Monte ; and these, we believe, are at present the only 

 specimens that have reached England. 



By viewing this as the type of the Scansorial group of 

 the Tyrant-flycatchers, (Tyranninae) every circumstance, 

 even the most minute, regarding its structure and its 

 colours will be explained. As representing BracJiyp/ts, 

 (North. Zool. 2. 485.) and its analogies, it has the under 

 tail covers richly coloured. As representing Leiothryx 

 (11. 490.) it has the same coloured cinereous and silky 

 plumage: as a scansorial type, it has a conspicuous al- 

 though an incumbent crest, and a long ornamented tail. 

 It is a Titmouse among the Tyrants, and is nearly as 

 much of a Ceblepyris as of a Tyrannus. Indeed, when 

 we described the female, we thought it actually entered 

 the circle of the former, but the laws of representation 

 has set us right on this point. Pltoenicornis is the first 

 of the Ceblepyrin/e, as Philioyonys is the last of the 

 Tyranninae. The females of Phcenicornis are clothed 

 in the same slate coloured plumage, but, as being of a 

 fssirostral type, their mouths are conspicuously bristled, 

 while those of Ptiliogonys are quite smooth. Finally, 

 the wings are those of a Ceblepyris, but the tail that of 

 a Tyrannnla ! 



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