168 LANIID.E. 



wardly with white : tail the colour of the back, of a 

 singular shape, rather long, and, as it were, doubly 

 wedged, the two middle feathers being shorter than 

 the three next ; the following shorter to the one on 

 each side, which is the shortest of all : legs dusky. 

 The female is smaller, is without the dusky spot 

 between the beak and eye, and the outer tail-feathers 

 are edged with white. The feathers on the rump 

 are very full and downy. 



Sp. 3. Ce. niger. Temm, 



Ce. suprh niger cceruleo aut viridi nit ens ; infra remigihusque 

 interne olivaceo-viridis. 



Ceblepyris above black glossed with blue or green ; beneath^ and 

 with the quills within, olive-green. 



Echenilleur noir. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. pL \65. Black Cater- 

 pillar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist, v. 86. 



Less than the following : beak black : irides dusky 

 brown : plumage above glossy blue-black, or greenish : 

 inner parts of the quills olive-green, so as to appear 

 beneath all of that colour : legs black. 



Sp. 4, Ce. flavus. Temm. 



Ce. olivaceo'fuscus pennis fiigro iindulaiis npicihits Jlavis ; inter 

 rostrum et oculos Jksco-alho iinduUs ?i?gris ; tectricibns mcL" 

 joribus alarum 7'emigibus rectricibusque nigris Jlavo marginatis. 



Olive-brown Ceblepyris with the feathers waved with black and 

 tipped with yellow 3 between the beak and eyes brown-white 

 with black waves ; with the greater wing-covertSj quills, and 

 tail-feathers black_, margined with yellow. 



Echenilleur jaune. Le Vaill. Ois. d' Afriq. 164. — Yellow Cater- 

 pillar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. 86'. 



Less than C. Le Vaillantii : beak smaller, brown : 

 upper parts pale olive-brown : the feathers tinged 



