JU)'^ I.AN'ilD.l. 



Sp. 2. Ma. olivaceus. 



Lanius olivaceus. Shaw, v. vii. p. 330. 



Sp. 3. Ma. erythropterus. 



Lanius erythropterus. S/unv, v. vii. p. 30 1 . — Lanius SenegaJus. 



Shaxv, v. vii. p. 314. 

 Sp. 4. Ma. atro-coccineus. Zool.Jour. [Durchcll) i.4Gl. pi. xviii. 

 Ma. supra niger subtus coccineus ; alis vigris, lined alba longi- 



tudinaliter notatis. 

 Malaconotus above black, beneath scarlet ; with the wings black, 



longitudinally marked with a white line. 



Length nine inches : head and upper parts of the 

 plumage above black : tail black, with its two outer 

 feathers often tipped with reddish-yellow : the rump 

 indistinctly striped with white : all the under parts 

 of the plumage, from chin to vent, are fine scarlet : 

 the wings are black with a white line, formed by the 

 outer webs of the fifth and sixth quills being of that 

 colour, and by those of part of the scapulars and 

 wing-coverts ; this line reaches from the shoulders : 

 the femoral feathers are black : the legs, beak, claws, 

 and irides, black : the nostrils are clothed with short 

 bristles. 



Sp. 5. Ma. dorsalis. 



Ma. niger infra albus ; rcmigibiis fectricibusoue alarum inter nis 



albo nigroque dimidiatis ; in medio doraifasciculo elevato pen- 



narum lanuginosariim. 

 Black Malaconotus beneath white ; with the quills and inner 



wing-coverts half black half white, with an elevated tuft of 



downy feathers in the middle of the back. 

 Puff-backed Shrike. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 32. 



Length six inches and a half: beak black : plumage 

 above black, beneath white : inner wing-coverts half 



