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Genus LANIOCEKCA Less. 



Laniocerca Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 353. Type L. hypopyrrha 



(Vieill.J. 



Fig. 111. — Laniocerca liypopyrrTia. 



Tliis genus is distinguished by the Shrike-like bill, propor- 

 tionately long tail, and small feet. The bill is somewhat com- 

 pressed, the width at the base is about three-fifths the length of 

 the exposed culmen. Rietal bristles only feebly developed. The 

 wing is rounded, the third and fourth primaries longest and equal, 

 the second being equal in length to the fifth and the first about 

 equal to the sixth. The tail is slightly rounded at the tip and 

 nearly four-fifths the length of the wing, the middle toe and claw 

 nearly equal in length to the tarsus. Coloration : male and 

 female similar. 



532. Laniocerca hypopyrrha 



Red-breasted Mourner. 



Ampelis Jiypopyvrlia VieilL. N. !Dict. d'Hist. Nat. viii.. p. 164, 1817" 



(Guiana). 

 Aulia hypopyrrha Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 303 (Bartica Grove, Camaousa) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 354, 1888 (Camacusa, Barticai 



Grove). 

 Laniocerca hypopyrrha Brabourne & Ckubb, B. S. Amer. p. 317, 



no. 3243,' 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above and below slate-grey with a 

 hoary tinge ; median and greater upper wing-coverts dark brown, 

 with ferruginous tips to some of the feathers ; bastard--i<'ing, 

 primary-coverts, and flight-quills also dark brown, some of 

 the inner secondaries slig-htly tipped with buff and with pal& 

 edges to the inner webs ; tail-feathers brown, tipped with buff and 

 tinged with grey on the outer webs ; throat and under surface of 



