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fasciated : the primary quills externally fasciated with 

 fulvous : the tail-feathers black, fasciated on the outer 

 webs with fulvous : the legs black, the claws pale. 



Sp. 4. Th. maculatus. Zov/. Journ. (Such.) i. 557. 



Th. ater albo maculatus ; subtus albidus ; abdomine injimo cris- 

 soque fulvo ; rectricibus albofasciatis. 



Black Bush-Shrike spotted with white 3 beneath whitish ; the 

 lower part of the abdomen and the vent fulvous ; the tail-fea- 

 thers barred with white. 



Length eight inches : the upper mandible of the 

 beak black, the edges white ; the lower white, with 

 its middle black : the forehead and quills with sub- 

 fulvous spots. It varies in having the breast and 

 abdomen of a plumbeous hue, and the spots on the 

 head nearly white : the mandibles totally black. 



Sp. 5. Th. Vigorsii. Zool. Journ. (Such.) i. 557. 



Th. dorsoj alis, rectricibusque, atris fulvo late fasciatis ; corpoi'e 

 subtus albido brunnescente ; capite riifo cristato ; crista apice 

 nigro ; mas: aut, capite cristato; dorso, alis, rectricibusque 

 atris, albido fasciatis ; torque nuchali corporeque subtus cinera- 

 ceis ; foemina. 



Bush-Shrike with the back, wings, and tail-feathers dark coloured, 

 broadly fasciated with fulvous ; the body beneath brownish - 

 white ; the head with a rufous crest, which is black at the tip ; 

 male : or, with the head crested ; the back, wings, and tail- 

 feathers dark, fasciated with white ; a collar on the nape, and 

 the body beneath ash-coloured ; female. 



Length thirteen inches : the beak greatly com- 

 pressed, black, the edges of the upper mandible and 

 tip of the lower white : the throat whitish : the sides 

 of the cheeks, the breast, and abdomen, brownish- 

 white : the rump fulvous. The female has the nape 



