3. CRACTICUS. 101 



Total length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



iu. in. in. in. in. 



10-5 1-5 5-6 4-G 1-2 



100 1-3 5i 4-1 1-2 



100 1-25 5-4 4-5 1-2 



Hab. South Australia. 



a, b. Ad. st. New South Wales. Major-Gen. Hardwicke [P,], 



c. Juv. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



d. 5 ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



e. Juv. sk. S. Australia. Sir Georg-e Grey [P.]. 

 /. Juv. sk. Port Lincoln. J. Gould, Esq. [0.]. 

 g. 5 ad. sk. Australia (^Chandler). J. Gould, Esq. 



h. cJ ad. st. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



Subspecies a. CracticTis cinereus. 



Vanga cinerea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 143; id. Si/n. B. Austr. 



part 1. 

 Cracticus cinereus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 300 ; Goidd, B. Austr. fol. i. 



Introd. p. XXXV ; -S/>. C. A. i. p. 367 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 186 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 386, no. 5855 ; Ramsay, Prcc, Linn. 



Sac. N. S. W. ii. p. 180. 

 Bulestes cinereus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. QQ, note. 



Four specimens from Tasmania are in their general appearance 

 very similar to 0. destructor, but diifcr from this species in some 

 particulars. One specimen with a black head has the general colour 

 of the back still more brownish ashy tha^i C. destructor. The white 

 on some of the secondaries and the scapulars is still less developed ; 

 and the white tips to the tail-feathers are also smaller, the central 

 pair being without any tips ; the basal third of all the tail-feathers 

 is shaded with grej% white near the base. 



Another specimen has the head, except the white lores, dark 

 brownish grey, and looks like the adult female of C. destructor. 



The young bird is like that of C. destructor. 



Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 5-5, tail 4"6, tarsus 

 1-24, 



Obs. According to Gould this species " may be distinguished from 

 C. destructor by its much larger bill, and when fulh' adult by its 

 grey back." Some specimens obtained from Mr. Gould's collection 

 show certain differences from the Australian bird ; but none of them 

 have the back as blue-grey as it is represented in Mr. Gould's 

 ' S)'nopsis.' If the adult male is as blue on the back as it is there 

 figured, the species is closely related to C. leucnpterus ; but from 

 this bird it differs in the almost entire absence of white on the "wing, 

 as well as by its browner coloration above and pale brownish-grey 

 flanks. 



Hab. Tasmania ; " also occurring on the shores of the opposite 

 part of the continent " {Oould). 



a. [ 5 ] ad. sk. Tasmania. G. MacLeay, Esq. [P.]. 



