4. GRAFCALUS. 41 



Adult. General colour above dark Freuch grey, the wing-coverts 

 uniform with the back, the greater series with a narrow white 

 edging ; bastard plumes black, edged with white ; primary-coverts 

 and (juills black, externally grey with a narrow white margin, the 

 innermost secondaries black on the inner web, grey on the outer 

 one ; two centre tail-feathers dark ashy grey, black at the tip ; re- 

 mainder of the tail-feathers black, more or less grey at the base, 

 and with a narrow white edging at the tip and on the inner web of 

 the outer feathers ; a narrow line at base of feathers, lores, and 

 feathers in front of the eye black ; round the eye a ring of dusky 

 grey feathers ; sides of face, throat, and chest grey like the upper 

 surface ; remainder of under surface of body regularly barred with 

 black and white, the bars about equal in breadth ; tliighs dark 

 grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred with black and 

 white like the breast ; greater under wing-coverts and quills below 

 dark ashy, the former faiutly barred with grey and white, the latter 

 darker at the tip and whitish along the inner web; "biU and feet 

 black; iris straw-colour" (Gould). Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 

 0-75, wing 5-55, tail -l-Oo, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Now South Wales and Eastern Australia as far as Rock- 

 ingham Bay. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Moreton Bay. Purchased. 



18. Graucalus maforensis. 



Campephaga maforensis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, xlix. p. 386 



(type examined). 

 Graucalus maforensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. viii. p. 927. 



Adult male (Mafoor, March 1873 ; tj'pe of species). Above light 

 bluish grey, the wing-coverts like the back ; bastard plumes black, 

 narrowly edged with white ; jjrimary- coverts black on the inner 

 webs, externally grey, rather lighter on the extreme margin ; quills 

 black, the primaries with a narrow edging of hoary grey, the secon- 

 daries like the back, blackish on the inner web ; tail-feathers en- 

 tirely black (only three feathers remaining) ; sides of face a little 

 darker bluish grey than the head; a narrow frontal line, lores, fea- 

 thers in front of the eyes and at base of cheeks black ; throat and 

 chest bluish grey ; breast and remainder of uudor surface of body 

 black, crossed witli very fine narrow lines of greyish white ; thighs 

 bluish grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, barred with 

 white like the breast, but the bars much broader ; quiUs ashy grey 

 below, narrowly edged with Avhite along the inner web ; " iris yel- 

 low " (Met/er). Total length 8'8 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 4*7, tail 

 3-8, tarsus 0-8. (Mus. Dresden.) 



Adidt female. Differs from the male in having much broader 

 white cross bars on the imder surface, the black ones, however, 

 being broader than the white ones : above, the colour is darker bluish 

 grey than in the male, the black at the base of the forehead being 



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