4. GRAUCALUS. 



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white ; thighs grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; 

 quills ashy bolow, white along the inner webs ; bill blackish 

 brown (Gould), black (D'Alhertis) ; legs and feet black, the insides 

 of the feet and spaces between the scales of the tarsi mealy grey 

 {Gould) ; iris brownish black (Gould), black (D'Alhertis). Total 

 length !)-5 inches, culmen O'Do, wing 3*7, taU 4";2, tarsus 0"9. 



Adult fi'malc. Like the male, but the black on the face duller and the 

 secondary quills and greater wing-coverts broadly edged with white on 

 the outer web ; the tail-feathers also conspicuously tipped with white. 

 Total length 10*5 inches, culmen 0'95, wing 5*75, tail 4-5, tarsus 0'95. 



Obs. This species comes very close to the female of G. mentalis, 

 from which it is distinguished by its smaller dimensions. In the 

 last-named bird the black beneath the eye is extended also onto the 

 upper edge of the ear-coverts. 



Head of Gfraucalus hi/pokucus, to show region of the eye. 



Hab. Northern Australia and Queensland, South-eastern New 

 Guinea, Aru Islands. 



[ 5 1 ad. sk. 

 [5] ad. sk. 

 [ $ ] ad. sk. 

 cJ ad. sk. 



cJ ad. sk. 



2 ad. sk-. 

 h. d 2 ad. sk. 



Port Albany. 

 Port Boweu. 

 Gould Island. 

 Port Moresby. 



Port Moresby. 

 Port Moresby. 

 Aru Islands. 



Pm'cliased. 



Godeffroy Museimi. 

 J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 



of »S'. atiffustifrons.) 

 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 

 Dr. Turner [C.]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



(Type 



14. Graucalus mentalis. 



Graucalus mentalis, Vk/. i^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 217 (type 



examined) ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr. part iv. ; id. B. Austr. folio, li. 



pi. 56 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 354 ; Reichenb. Vog. Kenholl. pp. 23.3, 283 ; 



Hartlaub, J.f. 0. 1864, p. 439 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 195; 



Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pt. 2, p. 180. 

 Ceblepyris (Graucalus) mentalis, Biipp. Mus. Senckmb. iii. p. 3G. 

 Campephaga mentalis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 336, no. 5007. 



Adult male. Above dark French grey, lighter on the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard 

 wing-feathers black ; primary-coverts black, externally washed with 

 dark gi'ey ; quills black, the primaries margined with hoary white, 

 the secondaries externally grey like the back and edged with white. 



