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P l a t e X X X I .
LANIO AURANTIUS.
(OEAKGE LASIO).
Lafr. E ev . Zool. 181C, p. 204.
B p . Consp. p. 241.
G ray , G en . o fB . App. p . 16.
D u Bus, E squiss. Orn. t. xxi.
Sc la ter, P.Z.S. 1856, p p . 119, 30:
Sclat. e t Salv. Ib is , 1859, p. 15.
i 1857, p. 229, e t Cat. A. B. p. 8
riu ráB im u s . p e c to re te rru gm e o tin c to : eopite to to com g u tta ie ,H . c t c .o dS m g ris : teot.ioibuB «la r» « , minoti-
bOB c . .u b 1 » b ;B U b .B : tOBtro e t p e d i b . n i g r i . : long, to tb 8 0. a l» d h . c a u d . au p ra bta tu ae a u ro p y g t.
Havleanto, c ap ite o in o ra .c .n te ¡ Bubtu, o li« a eo -lk™ . g a ttu ie oluereo. orisBo tulvo tm e to : aha e t cauda t o .
H a l. in Mexico Meridional! e t Guatemala.
This fliiely-eolom-ed speeies o f Lanio was first made known by the late Baron de la Fresnaye,
in one o f his numerous ornithological articles contributed to the Eevne Zoologiqne. Lalresnajre
was, IroweTor, in ernor as to its -patria, which he gives as “ Columbia.” In S c la t^ s Synopsrs
o f tlie Tanagridte, published in the Zoological Society’s Proceedings’ for 1850, this mistake
was con-ected upon tire faith o f specimens collected in Honduras by Dyson and m Son hern
Mexico by Sallé. The range o f this Lanio is, in fact, confined to the Central Ainenean Isthmus
north of Costa Elea, in which country its place is taken b y the allied Lanwkuootlm-ax. Besides
M Sallé’s specimens from Orizaba already alluded to, M. Boucard obtained examples at
Santeeomapam, in the State of Vera Cruz, in March, 1857; and we have seen ^
oolleetioirs from Southern Mexico. In Gnatemala Mr. Salvm found rt abundan m the forests
ot Northern Vera Paz. Soutlr o t this we have no record o f its existence, though it may
probably extend into Honduras and Nicaragua. n w ■ r
Tlie Tanagers o f the genius Lanio are strict denizens o f the virgin forests ot Noofi-opical
America. Mr. S.alvin met with this species dnring his excursions into the lower wood-region 0
Vera Paz in the beginning o f 1862, and observed it always amongst the lower branches o f Üie
liio-her trees. In this situation it is nsually mot w-itli in pairs, assoeiatmg with such fiuuUto-mg
b id s as PityluB poUogmtor, Euplmnia lirundinama, and Tanagra imconns, and subsisting
principally upon the same diet.
.LAN 10 A U R A llT IU S .