9. GRACULIPICA. 77 



1. Graculipica nigricollis. 



Gracula 



Pastor temporalif 



J. A. S. JBeng. 



(1847). 



Pastor bicolor, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 1 (1831). 

 Gz'acupica melanoleuca, Less. Traite, p. 401 (1831). 

 Sturnopastor nielanoleucus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 336 (1847). 

 Acridotheres nigricollis, Gray, t. c. p. 356 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 20, no. 6291 (1870) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151. 

 Sturnopastor temporalis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 109 (1849) ; 



Bjj. Consp. i. p. 420 (1850). 

 Gracupica nigricollis, Horsf. 8^ Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E.I. Co. ii. p. 528 



(1856); Stvinh. P. Z. *'.'l863, p. 303, 1871, p. 384; David ^- Oust. 



Ois. Chine, p. 364 (1877) ; Tiraiul, Bull. Soc. Agric. Cochin Chine, 



1879, p. 137 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 377 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mils. Civic. Genov. (2) iv. p. 602 (1887). 

 Sturnopastor nigricollis, Blyth Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 90 (1875) ; 



Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yunnan, Aves, p. 595 (1878), 



Adult. General colour above brown, with broad but indistinct 

 ashy edges to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; rump white, 

 forming a broad band ; upper tail-coverts brown, with lighter brown 

 edges ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown, edged with white ; median 

 and greater coverts brown, tipped with white ; bastard-wing blackish 

 brown, with white tips ; primary-coverts white ; quills dark brown, 

 tipped with white, the secondaries much more broadly edged at the 

 ends ; centre tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white at the end of 

 the outer web, all the other feathers broadly banded with white at the 

 tip; crown of head white ; hind neck black, forming abroad band, suc- 

 ceeded by a narrower band of greyish white, formed of the tips to 

 the feathers of the upper mantle ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and throat white ; sides of neck, lower throat, and fore neck 

 black, the feathers of the latter washed with greyish white at the 

 ends ; chest and under surface of body white ; thighs white, blackish 

 brown externally ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 and asillarics black, with broad white tips ; edge of wing white ; 

 quills below dark brown, a little lighter along the inner edge : " bill 

 reddish brown ; feet yellowish ; bare space round the eye bright 

 yellow " (A. David). Total length 11 inches, culmen l'2o, wing 

 6"2, tail 3'7, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 9'8 

 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 62, tail 3'5, tarsus 1"55. 



A male collected by Dr. Anderson has the wing 6"4 inches. 



Young. Browner than the adult, with no brown round the neck 

 or across the fore neck ; the head dull white ; the sides of the face, 

 throat, and chest pale dusky brown ; remainder of the under surface 

 and the wings and tail as in the adult. "When quite young the 

 head is brown also like the throat. 



11(d). China to Cochin China, Burmah, and Tenasserim. 



a. $ ad. k. Chxna, {Tuckett) . Tweeddale Coll. 



