3. CRACTICUS. 97 



" Bill ash-grey, the tip black ; feet dark greenish grey ; iris dark 

 reddish brown" {Gould). Total length 11 inches, culmeu 1-5, wing 

 6-5, tail 5, tarsus 1*3. 



Sexes alike. 



Hah. Northern Australia, 



a- Ad. St. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers, R.N. [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Port Essington. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.], 



3. Cracticus cassicus. 



Le Cassican de la Nouvelle Guinea, d'Aicb. PI. Enl. 628. 



Pied Roller, Lath. Gen. St/n. i. p. 415. 



Rhamphastus cassicus, Bocld. Tuhl. PI. Enl. p. 38 (1783). 



Coracias varia, Gm. S. N. i. p. 381 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 173 



(1790). 

 Gracula varia, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 464 (1809). 

 Cracticus varius, Vieill. JV. Did. v. p. 35o (I8l0) ; Bonn, et V. Enc. 



Meth. p. 901, pi. 142. f. 3 (1823); Bp. Consp. i. p. 3GG: Posenb. 



Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. p. 235 (1863) ; id. J, f. 0. 1804,' p. 121 ; 



Unsch, Neu- Guinea, p. 172. 

 Barita souuerati, Less. Traite d'0)-n. p. 346 (1831). 

 Barita varia, Cm. Phjn. An. i. p. 340 (1817) ; Temm. PL Col. pt. 46 



(1824) ; Midi. Naturl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22 (1839-44). 

 Cracticus cassicus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 300 (1845) ; id. P. Z. 8. 1858, 



p. 193 ; <SW. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 162 (1858) ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 



p. 172 (18(55) ; Schley. Mas. P.-B., Cvraces, p. 127; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 386, no. 5851 ; Meyer, Sitd). k. Ak. Wiss. IVien, Isix. 



p. 506 (1874) ; Salmd. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 823 (1875) • 



Sharpe, Pr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 82 (1876), 317 (1877), xiv. p. 687 



(1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Molucche, ii. p. 185. 



p. 342 ; Gray, Hand-l B. i. p. 386, no. 5847 ; Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. 



IFien, Ixix. p. 506 (1874) ; Posenb. Malay. Arch. p. 395. 

 Cracticus variaus {errore), Gi-ay, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 180 ; id. Cat. B. 



New Guin. p. 34. 

 Cracticus personatus, var., Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 430. 

 Barita personata, Temm.., Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 127 (1867). 



Adult male. Head and neck all round, throat, and chest o-]ossy 

 black ; rest of under surface, including the thighs and under tail- 

 coverts, axiUaries and under wiug-coverts, pure white, the outer 

 ones of the latter with black bases ; entire upper surface pure white 

 except in the middle of the back, where it is broken by the motthno- 

 caused by the black bases of the feathers ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts pure white, with concealed blackish bases ; aU the outer 

 wiug-coverts of each series, bastard wing, and immary-coverts 

 black ; quills black ; some of the inner secondaries pure white 

 oxcepriug a mesial black streak, the innermost ones black in- 

 ternally, with a gradually varying amount of white, increasino- 

 towards the centre of the wing ; tail black, all but the two ceutre 



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