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ORANGE-BREASTED BUSH-SHRIKE. 
In point of structure, it may be said that this bird 
is a Malaeonotus, but with something of the short 
and gradually curved bill of a Lanius. The lateral 
toes are very unequal, and the claws are neither 
slender nor acute ; the wings reach only to the base 
of the tail. 
Total length, 7? 1° f > bill from the gape, ; 
from the front, | ; wings, 3^ ; tail from the base, 
3| ; tarsus almost 1. 
WHITE-PLUMED SHRIKE. 
Prionops plumatus, Swains. 
PLATE XXVI. 
Above glossy black ; beneath white ; wings with a longitudi- 
nal white stripo ; head, crest, and nock white witli a grey 
nuchal collar ; eyes encircled with a naked yellow skin. 
Le Geofl'rov, Le VaiU. Ois. d'Afrique, ii. pi. 80, 81. — Lanius 
pluraatus, Shaw, Gent. Zool. viii. 2. p Prionops Geoffroii, 
Vie ill. Ency. Meth. 754. 
Every family of birds — we may even say every 
genus — contains one division, which puts on some 
characteristic of the swallow tribe ; or in scientific 
language, is a representation of the fissirostral and 
natatorial type of nature. The genus now before 
us appears to hold this station in the circle of the 
Bush-shrikes, from all of which, independent of 
