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Subfam. THaMNOPHILINA. Swains. 
Genus. Vanca. Vieill. 
1. Destructor. V. suprà cinereo-fuscus, subtus albidus; capite, 
genis, remigibus, rectricibusque nigris, illis albo-strigatis, his 
apice albo-marginatis. - 
Vanga Destructor. Temm. Man. d’Ornith. p. lix. 
Cassican Destructeur. Jd. Pl. Col. 273. 
Mr. Caley thus observes on this species. “ Butcher-bird.— 
"This bird used frequently to come into some green wattle-trees 
near my house, and in wet weather was very noisy ; from which 
circumstance it obtained the name of Rain-bird. It SIREN to 
bea solitary bird, or at xc to associate only with its mate." 
Genus. CoLLURICINCLA*. 
Rostrum forts sub-elongatum, compressum, rectum, culmine 
picem versus gradatim arcuato : mandibulé inferiori prope 
apicem fortiter emarginatâ : naribus ovalibus subobliquis, 
membrano partim clausis, setis plumulisque obtectis: rictu 
setis parce instructis. 
Ale mediocres rotundatæ : remigibus, prima brevi, tertià quarta 
quinta et sexta fer? æqualibus longissimis, septimá breviori, 
. secundá et octavà pauló brevioribus equalibus ; tertiæ ad 
sextam inclusam pogoniis externis in medio paulatim latio- 
ribus. | ( 
Pedes mediocres, tab ; acrotarsiis scutellstis, paratarsiis 
integris ; digitis mediocribus, medio longiori, halluce forti, 
-hujus ungue subelongato forti. 
Cauda subelongata, æqualis. 
* Koadvpiay lanius, and xryxhos turdus. 
This 
