shrike;, 



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buff-colour; belly, thighs, and vent dirty brownish white; axillary 

 feathers, and scapulars white, forming a large spot on the shoulder ; 

 quills and tail brown ; legs black. 

 Inhabits Brazil. 



115— TYRANT SHRIKE. 



Lanius Tyrannus, hid. Orn. i. 81. Lin.i. 136. Gm. Lin. i. 302. VieiU.Am.'i. 76. 



pi. 46. Borowsk. Nat.n. t.4. Bartr. Trav. 287. Sharv's Zool. vii, 304. t. 41. 

 Muscicapa Tyrannus, 2?rw. ii. 391. Jrf. Svo.i. 267. 

 Le Titiri, ou Pipiri, Tyran, Buf. iv. 572. PI. enl. 537. 

 Le Suii-iri, proprement dit, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No, 197. 

 Pica Americana cristata, Frisch. t. 62. 

 Turdus corona rubra, Klein, p. 69. 25. 



Lanius Tyrannus, Tyrant Flycatcher, Am. Orn. v. 2. pi. 13. f. 1. 

 Tyrant Shrike, Gen. Syn.'i. 184. Id. Sup.W. 73. 



SIZE of a Thrush ; length eight inches, breadth fourteen, Bill 

 blackish brown, with bristles at the base ; irides brown ; upper part 

 of the plumage grey brown, the under white; breast inclining to 

 ash-colour; top of the head nearly black; the base of the feathers 

 in the middle orange, but seldom visible, except the bird erects them, 

 when the orange streak appears ; tail brown, margined with rufous ; 

 legs black brown. 



The female differs principally in the head, the base of the 

 feathers being there yellow instead of orange ; the colours, too, in 

 general not quite so deep, and the bird a trifle less in size. 



Inhabits Virginia. 



A.— Tyrannus Dominicensis, Bris. ii. t. 382. Id. 8vo. i. 267. Gnu Lin i. 302. 

 St. Domingo Tyrant, Gen. Syn. i. 185. A. 



This seems to differ chiefly in the tail, the feathers of it having 

 the outer edges and tips brownish white ; indeed M. Brisson does not 



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