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with eight or ten similar appendages, which surpass 

 the length of the feathers by about an inch, and form a 

 kind of cravat, which the bird can elevate at pleasure ; 

 both sexes are thus provided : the upper parts of the 

 plumage in the male are green, glossed with ash on 

 the back, and the tail is tinged with reddish ; the 

 tip of the feathers of the latter bearing a very narrow 

 yellowish crescent : the feathers of the throat form- 

 ing the beard are of a beautiful clear yellow, with 

 the shafts yellowish : the rest of the plumage of the 

 under parts is ashy-green, with the edges of the 

 feathers palest. The female has the colours more 

 ashy than the male, and the gular feathers are less 

 brilliant : in other respects she resembles the male. 



GENUS LXX.— SPARACTES, Uliger. 



Beak moderate, robust, fur- 

 nished with bristles at the 

 base, convex above; the 

 upper mandible dcntato- 

 emarginate on both sides 

 towards the tip, the tip 

 hooked ; the lower entire, 

 depressed. 



Sp. 1 . Sp. superbus. 



Lanius superbus. Shaxv, v. vii. p. 290. pi. 39. — The South Sea 



Islands. 



Rostrum mediocre, robus- 

 tum, basi setis instructum, 

 supra convexum ; mandi- 

 bula superior versus api- 

 cem utrinque dentato- 

 emarginata, apice adunca ; 

 inferior integra depressa. 



GENUS LXXI.— LANIUS Auctoium. SHRIKE. 



Rostrum robustum, basi nu- 

 dum, subtriangulare,supra 

 convexum, lateratim com- 

 pressum ; mandibula su- 



Beak robust, base naked, sub- 

 triangular, convex above, 

 laterally compressed ; the 

 upper mandible hooked 



