292 CLASS AVES. 



black ; bill beneath yellow ; wings spotless ; quills 

 blackish, red-edged ; tail chestnut ; feet brown ; body 

 four and a half, tail two inches. Brazils. 



? Lanius Validus, Licht. Jeune. Distingue roux a 



t^te noire, Azara, 209. 

 Above sooty ; head rather crested ; black ; rump olive ; 

 beneath ashy ; throat whitish ; crop and chest reddish ; 

 base of dorsal feathers and quills white ; second quill 

 shortest. Young, back olive ; quill and tail red and 

 black varied ; beneath reddish ash ; length seven 

 inches and a half. Paraguay. 



? Lanius Mitratus, Lich. d*. Lanius pileatus, fern. 

 Lath. 31 ? 5 Muscicapa Aurantia. Lath. ? 



Ashy ; beneath white ; wing-coverts and secondaries, 

 obsoletely white-lined ; crown black ; forehead and ears 

 white ; female : cinnamon ; crown broAvn ; forehead 

 ashy ; wing coverts and secondaries obsoletely ferru- 

 gineous edged ; length 5 — 6 inches ; allied to Lanius 

 Atricapillus ? Cayenne. 



Psaris niger, Swainson. 1. c. 



Black ; beneath gray ; tail slightly graduated, black, 

 white-iipt. Length five and three quarters inches long. 

 Brazil ? 



Pachyrhynchus Variegatus, Spix. Braz. 43. 2. 

 Ashy ; wing and tail black ; wing-coverts and wedge- 

 shaped tail white-tipt ; quills white-edged. Brazils. 



The CiioucARis, Buff. Graucalus, Cuv. 



Have the beak less compressed than the Shrikes ; the 

 upper crest is sharp ; arched equally in its whole 



