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RUFOUS-EARED BLAOK-OAP. 
Psaris erythrogenys, Selby. 
PLATE III. 
Cinereous-grey above ; whitish beneath ; front and sides of 
the head rufous ; wings and tail black. 
Psaris erythrogenys, Selby, Zool. Journal, ii. 483 Must, oj 
Om. i. under pi. 10. 
The first intimation of this species was given by Mr. 
Selby, who observed it in the museum at Paris, 
where we subsequently drew and described it. 
Latterly, however, a specimen has come into our 
possession, but it must still be considered a very 
rare species, since we have not yet met with it in 
any of our public collections. It has been thought, 
indeed, to be the young of the Lanius inquisitor of 
Olfers ; but I am by no means inclined to adopt this 
opinion, not only because there is no analogous in- 
stance of rufous changing into black merely upon 
one part of the head, but because a specimen of the 
adult male of the true inquisitor, forwarded to me 
from Berlin by Professor Lichtenstein, differs mate- 
rially in its dimensions from our erythrogenys. That 
