TELOPHOKUS. 
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the circle of Laniance : for, although the bill is mode- 
rately lengthened in T. collaris (^fig. 120. ft.), and re- 
markably so in T. lon- 
girostris* 120. a.), 
stiU the culmen is regu- 
larly curved, and not 
ahrvptly hooked at the 
end, as in Malaconotux. 
We have no remaining 
doubt, in short, of the 
immediate union of Telo- 
pfconits with the pre-eminentlytypicalgenusLn»i«s,' this 
union being effectedby tlie Corvine shrike in one division, 
and the Teloph. leucogramminus in the other. The second 
type is Minus {fig. 121 .), at present composed hut of one 
species : it has the bill much 
like that of a true shrike, but 
considerably attenuated; and 
the general organisation of 
the bird is weaker than in 
any other genus. This we 
think is the tenuirostral type of the circle, if so, it will 
consequently stand between Chcetohlcmma and Falcun- 
culus. ATe have already shown in what respect this 
latter genus may be viewed as uniting the whole of the 
shrikes into one circular family ; but as we have ventured 
so far as to trace out the smaller circle of Laniance, the 
ornithologist may well inquire in what manner Falcun- 
cuius can be actually united to Lccnius, seeing that its 
outward structure, no less than its scansorial habits, are 
so different. Now, this union is effected by a singular 
bird of Brazil, long bandied about (to translate an ex- 
pressive French phrase) in systems, from the tanager 
family to the old genus Lanius, and then again to 
Thamnophilus : its structure was so peculiar, that some 
years ago we placed it as the type of a supposed genus, 
under the name of Cyclaris: a more minute analysis, how- 
ever, of this sub-family, and more especially the recent 
* See Part V. 
