92 



Adult. Glossy blue-black, with a decided shade of greenish on 

 the underparts ; thighs blackish ; on the nape and hind neck a large 

 pure white patch : lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail also 

 white, tlie latter with a verj^ broad terminal baud of black ; outer 

 web of the outer pair also black ; all the wing-coverts except the 

 primaries pure white, forming a very conspicuous shoulder-patch ; 

 edge of the wing also white ; bastard wing and primar}--coverts 

 black, the latter white at base : under wing- and tail-coverts and 

 vent-feathers white ; the axillaries black. 



Total length 15 inches, culmen 2-1, wing 10-6, tail 6-5, tarsus 2-3. 

 15-5 „ „ 2-2, „ 10-8, „ 6-8, „ 2-40. 



Another specimen is apparently younger, and has the neck-patch 

 less defined, the feathers on the hinder part mottled with black ; 

 feathers of the back with white edgings ; rump-feathers with black 

 bases, only the tips being white, producing a strongly mottled 

 appearance. 



Young. Top of the head, wings, and terminal part of the tail 

 brownish black ; the feathers of the back blackish, narrowly tijijied 

 with grey ; the whole under surface of the body brown, mottled 

 with darker brown and whitish. 



Hah. The whole of Australia, excepting the north coast and 

 Tasmania. 



a. Juv. St. 



b. Ad. sk. 

 e. Ad. sk. 



d. <S ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



/. Juv. sk. 

 y. (S ad. sk. 



h. Ad. St. 



i, k, I. Skeletons. 



Australia. 

 New South Wales. 

 New South Wales. 

 Goulbum, Dec. 1876. 



Queensland {Cocherell). 



Queensland. 



Sutton River, N.W. Aus- 

 tralia, Nov. 2, 185G. 

 New South Wales. 



J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Australian Museum 



[P.]. 

 F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [R]. 

 Purchased. 

 J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 Purchased. 



2. Gyttmorhina leuconota. 

 A. Larger Race. 



Barita tibicen, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de V Uran., Zool. p. 100, pi. 20 



{nee Lath.) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 345. 

 Gymnorhina leuconota, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 302, pi. 73 ; Cah. Mns. 



'Hein. Th. i. p. 226; Reichenh. Handh. Kotnnj. no. 215; Goidd, 



Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 176; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2, no. C063; 



Mamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 180. 

 Barita leuconota, Bji. C. A. i. p. 3G7. 



B. Smaller Mace. 



Cracticus hypoleucus*, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 106; id. Syn. B. 



Austr. part i. 

 Gymnorhina organicxun, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 48 ; id. Sandb. B. 



Austr. i. p. 178 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 180. 



* The name hypolciums was evidently a lapsus for hyperleitcus. 



