LANIID^. 



the base : neck behind, back, rump, and scapulars, 

 cinereous ; upper tail-coverts black : all the under 

 parts white : lesser wing-coverts cinereous, greater 

 brown : quills brown, with the inner margins white : 

 tail greatly forked, the outer feathers being nine 

 inches in length, and the middle ones not two j all 

 of them black, but the outmost has the exterior web 

 white for half its length : legs black. In some spe- 

 cies the yellow on the crown is wanting ; in others 

 the outer margins of the quills are white, as well as 

 the inner. 



Sp. 7. Ty? Mexicanus. 



Muscicapa forficata. Steph. v. x. p. 413./?/. 33. — Mexico. 

 Sp. 8. Ty ? Neugeta. 



Lanius Neugeta. Shaw, v. vii. p. 287. — Brazil. 



GENUS LXIV.-~GUBERNETES, Such. 



Rostrum crassum, siibdepres- 

 sum, basi sublatum, cul- 

 mine rotundato ; mandi- 

 hula superior apice lev iter 

 emarginata. 



Nares rotundse 



Rictus vibrissis confertus, 

 rigidis. 



Cauda longissima, forficata. 



Alee mediocres ; remiges 

 prima ad qu in tarn fere 

 aequales, prima brevissima, 

 secunda longissima, pogo- 

 nii externi, prima pogonio 

 excepto, in medio emargi- 

 nati, interni integres. 



BeaJc thick, rather depressed, 

 somewhat broad at the 

 base, the ciilmen rounded ; 

 the upper mandihle slight- 

 ly notched at the tip. 



Nostrils rounded. 



Gape with several stiff* bris- 

 tles. 



Tail very long, forked. 



Wings moderate ; the first to 

 the fifth nearly equal, the 

 first shortest, the second 

 longest; the outer webs, 

 except the first, notched 

 in the middle; the inner 

 entire. 



