. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ,p t>u«] COLLURIO. '''*'*^ "i-'i KSt ,..,;, ,'1 Family LANIID^. The diagnosis on page 322 will give a general idea of the characters of this family, as represented in the New World, especially as com- pared with its allies the Vireonidae and Ampelidse. The only genus found in America is that of typical " Lanins," and from which I have drawn the famii_^ characters, although as given above they are in general rather those of the Laniinae. Enneoctonus, of which Europe has several
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ,p t>u«] COLLURIO. '''*'*^ "i-'i KSt ,..,;, ,'1 Family LANIID^. The diagnosis on page 322 will give a general idea of the characters of this family, as represented in the New World, especially as com- pared with its allies the Vireonidae and Ampelidse. The only genus found in America is that of typical " Lanins," and from which I have drawn the famii_^ characters, although as given above they are in general rather those of the Laniinae. Enneoctonus, of which Europe has several species, differs in much less rounded wing, the first quill about one-third the longest, the second about equal to the fourth ; the tail shorter than the wing, and much less graduated: the biU more feeble. In the specimen before me of Enneoctonus collurio there is no indication whatever of division of lateral plate of tarsus, and the nostrils are scarcely concealed. (li COLLURIO, Vigors. Collurio, Vigors, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1831,42. (Type Lanius excuhitor, ;) Lanius, Aut. (not of Linn^us, whose type is L. cristatus), CoUyrio, Q. R. Gray.—Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 323. Body robust. Winf^s rather shorter than the much graduated tail (the lateral feather about three-fourths the central). Primaries ten; the Ist about half the 2d, which la longer than the 7th, the oatermost slightly sinu- ated at end. Bill very powerful, deep and much couiprtAssed, both out- lines much curved and eonvex ; the upper man- dible decurviug into a stroll(^ hook with a deep notch behind it, followed by a prominent tooth; tip of Idwer bill obsoletely iimilar. Nostrils almost circnlar, placed nearly opposite middle of cora- "'issar*, in nasal fossa,. Onllvrio exeuhUoroieUg. (All the flgureH tlireeruiirtliH natnral bIm.) *itlUMU membrane, excepting behind, overhung and mostly concealed by the "tiff Iroutal bristly feathers and bristles ; base of mouth also with prominent *r. Please note that
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