88 SHRIKE. 



A — Le Rousset, Levail. Afr.'u. 115. pi. 77. f.2. 

 Tyran a huppe rousse, Vieill Am.\. p. 79. pi. 49. 



This is a trifle smaller. Bill and legs dirty horn-colour ; top of 

 the head bright glowing rufous; cheeks and throat light black, varied 

 with rufous white, or rather spotted on the jaws, passing to the 

 hindhead, almost like a collar; lore whitish; upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail rufous, but not so bright as the crown, and 

 paler; quills dusky, margined with rufous; tail bright rufous, 

 somewhat cuneiform, and the wings reach to the middle of it. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Mr. Levaillant supposes it to be a young bird. 

 The under parts are indeed rufous, but very pale, especially on the 

 throat, fore part of the neck, and breast, the varied parts of which 

 are dusky white. It is said to be most common about bushes and 

 shrubs, feeding near the bottom, and rarely seen in other situations ; 

 one answering to this description in the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



B. — In the collection of Lord Stanley is one, which appears to 

 be a further variety. It agrees in many points with the general 

 description, but the wing coverts are obliquely tipped with white, 

 forming streaks on the wing ; the tail two inches long, cuneiform, and 

 black ; the outer feather shortest by half an inch ; all of them marked 

 with a white spot at the end, deepest at the outer ones, the exterior 

 web of which last has a long white space about the middle of it; the 

 wings reach to about half way on the tail ; the under parts of the 

 body pale rufous ash-colour. 



