288 CLASS AVES. 



Ocypterus Rufiventer, Valenc. Mem. Mus. vi. $ , f. 1. 

 Aratamus Fuscus, Vieil. Diet. H. N. 



Head gray, back ashy brown ; belly reddish ; wings 

 and tail slate-coloured ; rump, vent, and tail tips white. 

 Bengal. 



Lanius Viridis, Gm. Tschachert, Buf. PI. Enl. t. 32. 

 f. 2. Briss. ij. t. 15, f. 2. 



Head, wing and body above dull green ; beneath white ; 

 tail black. Madagascar. 



Loxia 9 Melanoleuca, Forst. Mss. Lanius Manillensis, 

 Briss. ij. t. 18, f. 2. PI. Enl. t. 9, f. 1. Lanius leu- 

 corhynchus, and var. /3. Lath, and L. Domhiicanus, 

 Gm. Sonnervat, Voy. 1, 25. 



Head, back of neck, wings, back, and tail black ; lower 

 wing coverts, rump, thigh, and body beneath white ; 

 length seven inches. New Caledonia. 



The Cassicans, BufF, Barita, Cuv. 



Have a large straight conical beak, round at the base, 

 beginning on the feathers of the forehead by a circu- 

 lar slope ; rounded at the back, compressed at the 

 sides, with a point crooked and sloped laterally. 



These are large birds of New Guinea and New 

 Holland, which naturalists have arbitrarily dispersed 

 through many genera. The finest has been put among 

 the birds of Paradise, Paradisea Viridis, Gm. Enl. 

 634. Its whole body is of a brilliant black, with the 

 feathers of the head and neck goffered. It comes 

 from New Guinea, as do the birds of Paradise. 



The others are varied with white and black, and 



