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LANIIDiE. 



wardly with wliite : tail the colour of the back, of a 

 singular shape, rather long, and, as it were, doubly 

 wedged, the two middle feathers being shorter than 

 the three next ; the following shorter to the one on 

 each side, which is the shortest of all : legs dusky. 

 The female is smaller, is without the dusky spot 

 between the beak and eye, and the outer tail-feathers 

 are edged with wliite. The feathers on the rump 

 are very full and downy. 



Sp. 3. Ce. niger. Temm, 



Ce. supra niger cceruleo ant viridi nil ens ; infra remigibusque 

 interne olivaceo-viridis. 



Ceblepyris above black glossed with blue or green ; beneath, and 

 with the quills within, olive-green. 



Echenilleur noir. Le Vaill. Ois. d' Afriq. pi. 165. Black Cater- 

 pillar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. 86. 



Less than the following : beak black : irides dusky 

 brown : plumage above glossy blue-black, or greenish : 

 inner parts of the quills olive-green, so as to appear 

 beneath all of that colour : legs black. 



Sp. 4. Ce. flavus. Temm. 



Ce. olivaceo-fuscus pennis nigro undulalis apicibus Jtavis ; inter 

 rostrum et oculos fusco-albo undulis nigris ; tectricibus ma" 

 joribus alarum remigibus rectricibusquc nigris Jlavo marginatis. 



Olive-brown Ceblepyris with the feathers waved with black and 

 tipped with yellow ; between the beak and eyes brown-white 

 with black waves ; with the greater wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers black, margined with yellow. 



Echenilleur jaune. Le Vaill. Ois. d" Afriq. 164. — Yellow Cater- 

 pillar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. 86. 



Less than C. Le Vaillantii : beak smaller, brown : 

 upper parts pale olive-brown : the feathers tinged 



