35. riCATHAKTES. 1-11 



Adult male. General colour grey, both above and below, rather 

 browner on the back, the feathers of the head, sides of face, throat, 

 and breast rather scaly in appearance, by reason of their lighter 

 greyish tips; Aviugs pale bro\VTi, inclining to darker brown on the 

 inner webs of all the quills and on the centres of the wing-coverts ; 

 tail glossy black, with a slight greciiish lustre on the outer webs ; 

 under wing-coverts and lining of wing pale ashy brown ; bill and 

 legs black ; iris pearly white. Total length 12-7 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 5-9, tail 6-4, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 12-S inches, 

 wing 6, tail 6-9, tarsus 1-6. 

 • Hub. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



b,c. S 2 ad- sk. N. Austi-alia. Sir T. MitchellTP.]. 



d. ? ad. sk. Gilbert Kiver, Sept. 23, 1656. J. R. Elsey, Esq. fP 1 



€,f. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



35. PICATHARTES. 



Type 

 Galgulus, Wagler, Si/st. Av. Pica, note (1827, nee 



Briss.) p_ gymnocephalus. 



I'lcathartes, Less. Man. (TOrn. i. p. 375 (1828) P. gymnocephalus. 



Range. Gold Coast. 



1. Picathartes gymnocephalus. 



Covvus gymnocephalus, Temm. PI. Col. 327. 



Tufted Grakle, Lafli. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 162. 



Galgulus gymnocephalus, Wagler, 8i/st. Av. art. Pica, note. 



Picathartes gymnocephalus, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 375 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 316; Bp. Consp. i. p. 387; ffartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 114 ; 



Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 54; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 14; 8/iarpe, 



Ibis, 1872, p. 71; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 57; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 67, 



pi. ii. 

 Pica gjmnocephala, Schinz, Katury. u. Abbild. Vog. p. 44, Taf. 16. 



tig. 3. 



Adult. Head bare and of a bright yellow colour aU over, except- 

 ing on the hinder part of the skull, where there is a circular area of 

 bare skin quite black and separated on the occiput by a narrow 

 band of yellow skin ; hind neck yellowish, the skin feathered with 

 silky white i)lumes ; chin bare ; the throat, sides of neck, and entire 

 under surface of body silky white, with somewhat of a yellowish 

 tinge ; general colour of upper surface slaty grey, inclining to black 

 on the upper part of the mantle : wing-coverts slaty like the back, the 

 greater series as well as the quills brown ; tail brown, slightly 

 shaded with grey on the centre feathers ; under wing-coverts and 

 inner lining of quiUs dark brown. Total length 16-5 inches, culmen 

 1-4, wing 5-9o, tail 7'5, tarsus 2-G. 



NestU<Hj. Of the same colour and markings as the adult, the bare 

 parts, however, not being so bright. 



