1() PICO-PASSERES. 



Genus CORCORAX. 

 Lesson, Trnite, p. 325 (1S31). 



Corcorax melanorhamphus. 



Coracias melanorhamphus, Vieillot, Xouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, viii. 



p. 2 (1817). 

 Corcorax leucopterus (Temm.), Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 52. 

 Corcorax melanorharnphus (V.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, iii. 



p. 149 (1877). 



The White-winged Chough. 



Hah. Australia, from Southern Queensland to New South 

 Wales and South Australia. 



66. Sternum and shoulder-girdle of male (wantino- left coracoid 

 and scapula). New South Wales {E. P. Ramsay). 

 S. S. 1352. Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.R.S. 



Family PARADISEID^ *. 



A. Outer toe longer than inner. {Vide p. 17, fig. 12.) 



B. luterorbital septum almost entirely occupied by large fenestra, 



with a large deficiency in cranial wall immediately behind, 

 and not separated from the former by a bony bar. 



C. Flexure of mandible immediately below nasal aperture. 



D. Frontal and squamosal zygomata nearly equal. 



E. Palatines with the posterior extremity prolonged as in 



Nacifraga. 



Fig. IL Fig. 10. 



Il''''^^\..y iof sof f:p 



Fig. 10. — Lateral view of skull of Farndisea minor. — io.f., inteiorljital 

 fenestra ; so./., supraorbital fenestra ; f.z.p., frontal zygomatic process ; 

 s.z.p., squamosal zygomatic process. (From a specimen in the Museum 

 of the Ivoyal College of Surgeons.) 



Fig. 11. — Ventral view of palate, to show the vomer and the posterior extre- 

 mities of the palatine bones. 



* Skeletons of several genera of Paradiseidse are figured in Meyer's ' Ab- 

 bildungen der Vogel-Skeletten.' Manueodia (pis. vii., vii. a), Uranorym (pi. 

 Ixxvii.), Schle<icliu (pi. Ixxviii.), Okmnurus (pi. v.). 



