4. GR\rCAT,TJS. 23 



with wliitc, tlie outer fealhers cxtornally edge'.l and broadlj- tipped 

 with white ; throat, fore neck, and cheat grey, rather darker than 

 the head and mantle ; remainder of under surface white, narrowly 

 barred with hlack, these bars disappearing towards the vent and 

 lower abdomen, which, with the under tail-coverts, arc pure white ; 

 thighs white, bar-red with black ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries 

 white, as also the inner aspect of the quills ; " bill and feet black, 

 tinged with olive; irides huffy white" {Gould). Total length 

 13 inches, culmcn 0-85, wing 7*65, tail 7, tarsus 1-45. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



H(d). Australia : Wide Bay district ; New South Wales : Interior ; 

 Victoria : South Australia ; West Australia {Ramsay). 



«. Ad. St. Interior of Australia. Captain Stin-t [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



4. GRAUCALUS. ^ 



Type. 



Graucalus, Cuner, Itegne Amni. p. 341 (1817) G. papuensis. 



Ceblepyris, Cuvier, Rhine Anim. i. p. 348 (1817) G. canus. 



Coracina, Cahanis, Mvs. Hein. Th. i. p. (32 (1850, nee 



Vieill.) G. melauops. 



Ptiladela, Jacq. ci Puclier. Vot/. Pole Sud, texte, iii. p. 67 



(1853) .■ G. boyeri. 



Cyanograucalus, Harfl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 170 G. azureus. 



Range. From Africa and Madagascar, through India and Ceylon, 

 the Burmese countries, eastwards to the island of Formosa ; 

 throughout the ilalayan Arcliipelago, the whole of the Moluccan 

 and Papuan islands, Australia and Tasmania. 



Ki'ij to the Species. 



a. Without anj- cross bars of l^lack or blackish grey ou 

 the abdomen ; sometimes in young bird? only faint 

 indications ; abdomen never regularly barred 

 across. 

 a'. General colour uniform below, the under tail- 

 coverts of the same colour as the breast and 

 throat ; upper surface of exactl}- the same colour 

 as the under surface. 

 a". Under wing-coverts orange-buff or chestnut, 

 diiferent from the breast, which is blue-grey. 

 a'". Under wing-coverts chestnut in male ; 5 



with white lores hoyeri, p. 25. 



b'". Under wing-coverts fawn-coloiu' or orauge- 



bufl'; 5 with grey lores xnl/alaris, p. 26. 



b". Under wing-coverts like the breast. 



c'". General colour cindery grey, the chin grey; 

 lores black in the male, grey in the le- 



malo ('(ssiifs, p. 26. 



d'". General colour azure-blue, tinged with 



cobalt, the chin and lores black azureits, p. 27. 



