142 LANIID^. 



'Nares basales subrotundae, 

 vibrissis rigidis plumisque 

 velutinis obtectse. 



Nostrils basal, nearly round, 

 covered with velvety fea- 

 thers, and rigid bristles. 



Sp. 1. Ir. puella. Linn. Trans. (Horsf.) r. xiii.^. 153.— Cora- 

 cias puella. Shaw, v. vii. p. 398. — Edolius puellus. Temm. 

 PL Col. 70. male ; 225. female.— India. 



Sp. 2. Ir} carinata. 



Ir? plumhea, infra ferrnginea i fronie juguloque nigris ; tempo^ 



ribus albentibusf rostri cuhnine carinato. 

 Plumbeous Irena } with the body beneath ferruginous, the front 



and throat black ; sides of the head whitish, top of the beak 



carinated. 



Muscipeta carinata. Swains. Zool. Illust. pi. 147. 



" Length six inches and a half : front, throat, and 

 margin, of the shoulders deep black ; the vsrhole upper 

 plumage is of a delicate lead-colour, which is paler 

 on the breast, and nearly white on the sides of the 

 head and neck ; body and inner wing-coverts rufous ; 

 the first quill is half the length of the second, which 

 is rather shorter than the three next : feet slender, 

 weak, and short ; the outer toe united, the inner 

 cleft : the beak at the base is triangular, but not 

 elevated : the sides compressed, the culmen or top is 

 sharp, elevated, and curved ; the tip of both mandi- 

 bles notched : nostrils simple, small, round, without 

 a membrane, and partly hid by the thick-set frontal 

 feathers and lengthened setaceous bristles round the 

 beak.'' The above is Mr. Swainson's description of 

 this species ; and he very properly remarks that the 

 foregoing peculiarities in the structure of the beak 

 may form the basis of a new generic distinction. 



