14. SXREPEKA. 57 



under wing-coverts also edged with whitish ; on the breast-feathers 

 a few remains of obsolete whitish edgings. 



Hah. Rocky-Mountain region of Western North America. 



a. Ad. St. Black Hills, U. S. A. Pm-chased. 



h. Ad. sk. Vancouver Island. Br. Lyall [P.]. 



r. Jun. sk. Western side of the Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mts., British Columbia. 



d,e. S 2 'id. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. 49th parallel N. lat., Aug. 18, N.-American Boundary 



1874 (Bawion). Commission [P.]. 



ff. 5 ad. sk. Buflalo Peak, Park Co. Purchased. 



Colorado. 



14. STEEPERA. ,j,^p^ 



Strepera, Leas. Traite dOrn. p. 330 (1831^ S. anaphonensis. 



Coronica, Gould, Syn. B. Austr. pt. i. (1837) S. gracuhna. 



Range. Confined to Australia and Van Diemeu's Land. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Quills not broadly tipped with white ; the white 

 tip, if present,' not exceeding 0-25 inch in 

 breadth. 

 a'. Base of tail white or pale rufous ; primaries 

 externaUy white at base, forming an alar 

 speculum. 

 «". Base of tail white, as also the base of the 



primarv-coverts graruhna, p. o7. 



h". Base of tail pale rufous ; no white base to 



the pi-imar\ -coverts crksalis, p. 58. 



v. Base of tail blackish ; no white speculum at 

 the external base of the primaries. 

 c". Base of inuer web of primaries white. 

 a'". Size large : tail more than 10 inches in 



length ; colour black ^ arptda, p. 59. 



V". Size smaller : wing not exceeding 8-5 

 inches in leuo-th. 



a\ Colour blackish brown intermedio, p. 59. 



I cnneiccnidata, p. 60. 

 h\ Colour grey \plumbea, p. CO. 



d". Primaries entirely black below ; no white 



at all at base of inuer web melanoptera, p. 61. 



b. Quills with broad white tips nearly I'o inch in 



breadth ; uuder tail-coverts blacMsh fidti/mosa, p. 61. 



1. Strepera graculina. 



Con-US graculinus, WJufe, Voij. New S. Wales, App. pi. to p. 251. 

 Coracias strepera, Lath. Lid. Oni. i. p. 173 ; Band. Lraite, ii. p. 267. 

 Noisy Roller, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siqjpl. ii. p. 121. 

 Le Grand Calib(5 ou Calibe hvuyant, LevailLOis. dc laradis, pi. /4. 

 Gracula strepera, Shaw, (hn. Zool. vii. p. 462. 

 Corvus strepera. Leach, Zool. Misc. i.p. 78, pi. 86. 

 Barita strepera, Teinin. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 41. 

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