L24 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Lanio aurantius Lafeesnaye, Rev. ZooL, iv, 1846, 204 ("Colombia;" coll. Lafres- 

 iiaye'). — Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., 1845(?),pl. 21. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 240.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 119, 303 (Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz; Honduras); 1857, 229 (Santecomapan, Vera Cruz); Synop. Av. 

 Tanagr., 1856, 43; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 83 (Guatemala; Vera Cruz); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 202 (Santecomapan; Brit. Honduras; Coban, 

 Clioctum, Cbisec, andKamkhal, Guatemala; Honduras). — ScLATBKand Sal- 

 viN, Ibis, 1859, 15 (Honduras); Exotic Orn., pt. iv, 1867, 61, pi. 31.— Sxjmi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (tierra caliente. Vera Cruz). — 

 Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 19 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca).— 

 BoucARD, Liste Ois. Guat., 1878, 33. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1873, 304 (Belize, Britisb Honduras; Kampamak, Guatemala, 

 etc. ) . 



L[anio] aurantius Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, App., 1849, 16. 



[Lanio] aurantius Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22. 



LANIO LEUCOTHORAX Salvin. 

 WHITE-THROATED SHRIKE-TAlfAGER. 



Adult male. — Head and neck (except throat and foreneck), scapulars, 

 wings (except innermost lesser and middle coverts), tail, and thighs 

 black; throat and foreneck white, the first margined laterally with black, 

 the last tinged with buff or decidedly of this color; innermost lesser 

 and middle wing-coverts white, the former with basal half (concealed) 

 abruptly blackish, the latter with terminal or subterminal roundish or 

 transverse spots of black; back bright chrome yellow, fading to lemon 

 yellow on rump, the feathers of both grayish basally with a blackish 

 bar between the gray and yellow, this subterminal blackish broadest 

 on rump; upper tail-coverts black, the shorter ones with yellowish or 

 fulvous tips; under parts of body lemon yellow; under tail-coverts paler 

 yellow, with concealed portion largely (sometimes mostly) blackish; 

 bill black; iris brown;^ legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 182.9-195.6 (190); wing, 99.1-102.9 (100.6); tail, 86.4-89.4 

 (87.4); exposed culmen, lY.8-19.3 (18.5); depth of bill at base, 8.4-9.7 

 (9.1); tarsus, 18-19.6 (19.1); middle toe, 12.7-14.2 (13.5).' 



Adult female. — Pileum uniform sepia brown; sides of head similar 

 but slightly paler; back, scapulars, wings, and tail plain rich brown 

 (intermediate between tawny -olive and mummy brown), the color 

 fading gradually on rump into light tawny -olive or olive-tawny; chin, 

 throat, and foreneck light wood brown ; under parts of body yellow, 

 pure on median portion of breast and abdomen, duller (more wax 

 yellow) on chest and sides, passing into cinnamon-tawny on flanks; 

 under tail-coverts lighter cinnamon-tawny, margined with yellow; 

 maxilla blackish; mandible dusky terminally, horn color basally, legs 

 and feet horn brownish (in dried skins); length (skin), 191.8; wing, 



' Types now in the collection of tbe Boston Society of Natural History. 

 '^ Carmiol, manuscript. 

 'Three specimens. 



