15() LANIIDiE. 



four or five interrupted and sometimes obsolete white 

 bands ; the tips of all the feathers are obtuse and 

 white : upper tail-coverts bounded with black and 

 white : tarsi rather short and robust, and in the living 

 bird cinereous. 



Discovered by Mr. Swainson in Brazil. 



Sp. 13. Th. cinnamomeus. Zool. Jour. (Sivainson.) ii. 87- 

 Th. cristatus supra cinnamomco-fuscus, alius infra ; tectricibus 



striis duabus angustis,fuscis,fasciatis. 

 Crested Bush-Shrike above cinnamon-brown, beneath white ; 



wing-coverts with two narrow dusky bands. 



Much allied to the former : length eight inches and 

 a half: the head is conspicuously crested j the whole 

 of the upper plumage, including the wings and tail, 

 is of a clear and uniform ferruginous or cinnamon 

 colour : the wing-coverts above are marked by a 

 narrow dusky line, close to their extremities, which 

 are somewhat brighter, and the same may be observed 

 on the lateral tail-feathers, the ends of which are 

 somewhat pointed : all the under parts are white, 

 slightly tinged with ferruginous on the sides : inner 

 web of the quills brown : tarsi long, robust, and 

 pale. 



Sp. 14. Th. fasciatus. Zool. Journ. (Sivainson.) ii. 88. 



Th. supra rufus ; infra nigro alboque fasciatus ; vertice maris 



nigra ; fceminsc rufo. 

 Bush-Shrike above rufous ; beneath banded by black and white ; 



crown, of the male, black; of the female, rufous. 

 Barred Shrike. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 57- 



A small species : length six inches and a half, 

 beak strong and thick, black with pale margins : in 



