280 CLASS AVES. 



Destroying Vanya, Vanga destructor, Temm. 



Lastly, some have the bill straight and slender, and 

 are remarkable for a crest of recurved feathers. 



The genus Prinops, of Vieillot. 



Gcoffroy's Shrike, Lath, H. 22. Lanius Plumatus, 

 Shaw. Vail. O. A. t. 80, 81. Prinops Geofroyii, 

 Vieillot, Gal. 142. 



Blue-black, middle of the back, tips of quills, and 

 beneath white ; back of head and orbits dusky ; two 

 outer, and tips of other tail feathers white ; seven 

 inches long ? 



Cuvier has added here Pipra Alhifrons, Gm. observing 

 that it is not a pipra. But later authors have placed 

 it as a myothera, or ant-eater. 



Near the shrikes, properly so called, are grouped 

 some foreign sub-genera, w^hich differ from them 

 more or less, and which we shall now point out. 



The Langrayen or Swallow-Shrikes. Ocypterus, Cuv. 



Have the beak conical, rounded everywhere, without 

 crest ; triflingly arched towards the end, with a very 

 fine point; slightly sloped on each side; the feet 

 rather short, and the wings of the same length, or 

 rather longer than the tail. Their capacity of flight 

 is the same as that of the swallows, but they have 

 the courage of the shrikes, and do not fear to attack 

 the raven. 



The species are tolerably numerous on the coasts, 

 and in the islands of the Indian Ocean, where they 

 fly continually and rapidly in pursuit of insects. 



