3. CEACTICUS. 95 



Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wiss. Berl. xxix. p. 506 (1874) ; Becc. Ann. 

 Mns. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 710 (1875). 

 Yanga quoyi, Ramsay, Tr. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. i. p. 392 (1876). 



Adult male. Above and below blue-black, slightlj* duller below, 

 all the bases to the feathers dusky blackish, the tips ouly blue- 

 black ; quills and tail jet-black, edged with blue-black ; under 

 surface of quills dusky black ; under wing-coverts, axillarics, and 

 edge of wing black, edged blue-black. Total length 14'o inches, 

 culmeu 2-3, wing 7"65, tail 6-5, tarsus 1-65. 



Obs. Australian bii'ds seem rather greener in tint, and a little 

 smaller. 



Yoinuj. Smoky-black, with very slight gloss ; biU ivory-white, 

 blackish at base of both mandibles. 



Ilah. Papuan Islands, Waigiou, Aru, Mysol, Salwatti, New Guinea, 

 and northern coast of Australia. 



«, 6. c? $ ad. St. Aru Islands. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Mysol. _ A. R. W^aUace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



/. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. Kendal Broadbent [C.]. 



y,h. Ad.sk. Port Albany, N.Aus- Purchased. 



tralia. 



i. S ad. st. Port Essington. Dr. Sibbald [P.]. 



k. S ad. sk. Cape A'ork. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Cape York. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



m-p. Ad. sk. Cape York ( /. T. F. D. Godinan and O. Sal- 



C'ockerell). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



q. Juv. sk. PortBowen,N.E.Aus- Purchased. 



tralia. 



2. Cracticus nigrigularis. 



Cracticus varius, Vig. ^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 261 {nee Gm.). 

 Vanga nigrogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 143 ; id. Syn. B. Aiistr. 



part i. 

 Cracticus nigi'ogiUaris, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 49; Grai/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 300; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 105 ; Gould, Handb. b. 



Austr. i. p. 180 ; Diyylcs, Orn. Austr. pi. — . fig. 1 ; Ilamsay, 



P. Z. S. 1875, p. 583. 

 Cracticus nielanolencus*. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 300. 

 Cracticus robustus*, Bj). C. A. i. p. 367 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 386, 



no. 5848 ; Pamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. AT. S. W. ii. p. 180. 



Adult. Head and neck all round, throat, and chest glossy black ; 

 remainder of under surface, including thighs, edge of wing, under 

 wing- and tail-coverts pure white ; round the hind neck a distinct 

 white collar ; back itself black, as also the scapulars, the uppermost 

 of the latter with grey bases to the feathers ; lower back greyish ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; central pair of taU-feathers 



* Both these names are taken from Latham, whose descriptions seem to me 

 quite um-ecoguizable. 



