8HRIKE. 83 



103 —BRAZILIAN SHRIKE. 



Lanius Pitangua, Ind. Orn.'u 78. Lin.i. 136: Gm. Lin. i. 303. Shaw's Zool. vii. 3QO. 



Pitangua-guacu, Raii, 165. JTi'K. 146. t. 38. Id. Orn. p. 198, 



Tyrannus Braziliensis, Bris.'u. 401. t.36. Id. 8vo, i. 269. 



Platyrhinque, 7Vm. ilf an. £<Z.ii. Anal, p.lxvi. 



Bentaveo, Cuiriri, Tyran du Brazil, Bj//.i. 579. t.27. P/. en/. 212. 



Bientare ou Puitaga, Voy. d'Azara. iii. No. 200. 



Brazilian Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 187^ 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nine inches. Bill very thick, more 

 than one inch and a half long, and pale brown, with bristles at the 

 base; plumage above brown, the feathers margined with yellow; 

 beneath the body fine yellow ; base of the feathers of the crown fine 

 orange ; on each side of the head, from the nostrils, a white stripe 

 passes over the eye to the hindhead ; beneath, and behind each eye a 

 deep brown spot ; throat white ; on the upper tail coverts a few spots 

 of brown ; quills brown, the inner edges rufous ; tail brown, the 

 feathers margined outwardly with rufous ; under parts of the body 

 olive grey ; legs blackish . 



Inhabits Brazil ; called Pitangua, from its note, which sounds 

 like the word Pouitenge ; said to make the nest on trees, in the shape 

 of an oven, and closed at top, and to lay two eggs; both sexes 

 nearly alike.* 



M. Temminck forms a genus of this by the name of Platyrhinque, 

 and joins with it our Great-billed, and Broad-billed Tody. 



* M. Vieillot. 



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