TITYRA PERSONATA, (nobis). 

 Masked Tityra. 



PLATE XXIV. 



T. supra grisea, subtus griseo-alba, fronte, maxilla, remigibus caudaque nigris, 

 cauda apice alba. 



jT or this new and beautiful Tityra, we are indebted to our friend Mr 

 Swainson, who, although he is himself conducting an elegant work on Or- 

 nithology, and is daily describing new species, has sent this almost as soon 

 as received entirely for our use. Mr Swainson received the skin from Mi- 

 Jenkins, a gentleman now residing at Real del Monte, on the table-land 

 of Mexico, devoting a great portion of his time to the study of the natural 

 productions of that most interesting portion of the world, and who has al- 

 ready transmitted to this country several valuable additions to ornithology. 

 The length is seven inches and a half : the bill is wide and strong, as in 

 T. cayana, yellowish-brown, with the tip of both mandibles black : the 

 space between the eyes and the bill, and a narrow circle round the eyes, are 

 bare of feathers, and appear to have been red, or yellowish-red, in the 

 living specimen ; at present they are dull orange coloured brown, and 

 strong short hairs are thinly scattered over them : the nostrils are placed 

 near the centre of the upper mandible, about an eighth of an inch from 

 the base, perfectly free and uncovered by any membrane ; they are round 

 and small, and are covered by a very few weak hairs arising from the base 

 of the bill : the forehead, the lower parts of the cheeks, in a line from 

 the under mandible, and a narrow circle round the eyes, are deep black : 

 the other parts of the head, the neck and back, the greater wing-coverts, 

 rump, breast and belly, are ash-grey, paler on the under parts, and on the 

 vent almost inclining to white : the shoulders, quills, and secondary fea- 

 thers, are black, the wings are long in proportion : the small feather in- 

 serted between the first and second quill is of more than ordinary length, 



