Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 233 
Grallina melanoleuca. Vieill. Anal. d'une Nouvelle Orn. pp. 42. 
§ 68. 
La Gralline noire et blanche. Jd. Gal. des Ois. pl. 150. 
We feel much uncertainty respecting the natural station of this 
genus of M. Vieillot. That gentleman places it in the same 
division with the Thrushes, next to his genus Psaroidos ( Pastor, 
Temm.); and from the size of the typical species and its general 
appearance, such a situation may be assigned it with much pro- 
bability of being near the truth. Our specimens, both of this 
species and of the next, which seems to belong to the same 
group, are not in sufficiently good condition to enable us to 
come to any decided opinion on this point. But as far as we 
can judge from the general characters of the bird before us, it 
strikes us that it bears a very great resemblance to the group of 
Enicurus, Temm., which belongs to the neighbouring Island of 
Java, and which is closely allied to the true Motacilla or the 
Wagtails of Authors. The length of the legs, the depression of 
the bill, and the general disposition of the colours, afford us some 
grounds for such a supposition. We leave it in this place pro- 
visionally for the present, until more perfect specimens are 
before us, and some knowledge of the habits and anatomy of 
the birds points out with certainty their station in nature. 
Our specimen was procured by Mr. Brown at Port Jackson 
in 1802. 
m 
2. Bicoron. Gral. nigra, dorso albo-variegato; scapularibus, 
strigd humerali, fasciá mediá alarum, abdomine caudeque 
basi albis. | - 
Caput collumque intensè nigra, colore nigro in medium pectus 
angulariter descendente. Remiges suprà nigræ, subtus 
pallidè fuscæ ; tertiæ ad sextam inclusam pogonia interna, 
cæterarum, duabus intimis exceptis, pogonia utrinque fas- - 
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