PLATE XLII. 



Lanius Cayanus : cinereus, capite remigibus rectricibusque prr- 

 moribus nigris.— Lm?i. Syst. Nat. 1. 137. 20. — ► 

 GmeL T. 1. 304, P.O.'-Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 80. 

 n. 47. 



Becarde. Buff. 1. p. Sll. 



Le Pie-griesche grise de Cayenne.— P^. Enl. 304. 

 Psaris. Cuvier An. Regne T, I, p. 340. 



Tityra Cinerea, Becarde. Vieillot Ornithologie Elementaire, p. 39» 

 n. 118. 



Cayenne Shrike. Lath, Syn. \. p, 189. 41. 



Lanius Cayanus is a bird of very striking aspect, although its 

 colours are of the most simple kind, and much more closely resembling 

 those of the feathered race peculiar to the northern regions of the 

 European continent than to the fervid climates of South America, 

 which it naturally inhabits. The length of this bird is about eight 

 inches, the prevaihng colour of the plumage, above grey, beneath 

 whiter, and sometimes pure white : head wings and tail black : the 

 bill pale from the base beyond the middle, with the tip black : the 

 legs and claws blackish. There are t^v'o or more varieties of this 

 bird, in which some variation of plumage is exemplified. This bird 

 has all the manners of our Common Grey Shrike, Lanius Excubitor, 

 and being found at Cayenne, has obtained the English appellation 

 of the Cayenne Shrike. 



This is a Linnaean species of the Lanius genus, and if we allow 

 ourselves to be governed by the Linnaean definition, there can be no 



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