2. GTirxoEnrxA. 91 



Cracticus gymnoceplialiis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 300 (1845) ; ScU. Mus. 



P.-Ji., C'oraces, p. l.JiO. 

 Gymnorhina gymuocephala, Grai/, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 2, no. GOGo. 



Adult male. General coloiu- above greyish black, all the feathers 

 with a marginal edging of deeper black ; quills black, the pri- 

 maries white at the middle of the inner web, increasing in extent 

 in the inner ones ; head bare, of a yellow colour in life, and covered 

 with little stiff bristles, many of them scarlet at base ; loral plumes, 

 sides of face, entire throat, and a collar round the hind neck brilliant 

 scarlet ; ear-coverts and a patch on the fore neck covered with 

 dingy-brown bristly plumes, the bases of these feathers scarlet ; 

 thighs scarlet ; bill black ; feet pinkish white ; iris dark brown. 

 Total length between 9 and 10 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5-9, tail 

 3"t5o, tarsus 1*3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male ; but some of the feathers of 

 the Hanks edged with scarlet. Total length 9-10 inches, culmen 

 1-4, wing G, tail 8-3, tarsus 1-35. 



Hah. Borneo. 



Hugli Cumino-, Esq. [C.]. 



[c'.i 



Hugh Cuming, Esq. 

 A. li. Wallace, Esq. 

 Goidd Collection. 



2. GYMNORHINA. 



Type. 



Gymnorhina, Gi-ai/, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 37 G. tibicen. 



Gymnorrhina, JReichenb. Handb. Naturg. p. 281 (1850). 



BiU considerably longer than rest of head, straight and pointed, 

 slightly notched, not hooked ; culmen rounded and flattened. JN'ostrils 

 longitudinal slits, quite bare of feathers ; a few rictal but no nasal 

 bristles present. Wings very long and pointed, covering the whole 

 tail : first primary long, half the length of the second : tip of wing 

 formed by third and fourth primaries. Tail square, less than half the 

 length of the wing. Tarsus anteriorly covered with mauy transverse 

 scales, which have a tendency to fuse with one another. 



The sexes are alilce in plumage ; the only colours black and white. ' 



lianrje. Australia and Tasmania. 



1. Gymnorhina tibicen. 



Piping Pioller, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Siippl. p. 122. 



Coracias tibicen, Lath. Ind. Oni. Stippl. p. xxvii. 



Barita tibicen, Temm. Man. d'Oni. i. p. li: Less. Traite p 34.5- 



Bji. a A. i. p. .367. ' 



Cracticus tibicen, Viff. c^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 260 ; Gould, 



Stjn. B. Austr. part i. ; Schl. Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 125. 

 Gynmorhina tibicen, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 50 ; id. S,- Mitch. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 302, pi. 73 ; Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 46 ; Cab. Mus. 



Jfein.Th.i. p. 226 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i.p. 175 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 2, no. 6062 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. k. W. ii. p. 180. 

 Gymnonhina tibicen, Beichenb. Handb. Naturg. no. 214 (1850). 



