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shall assign it the same position in the present as in the folio 

 work ; not that it has any special affinity to the birds which 

 immediately precede or follow it. I find it impossible to 

 arrange the birds of a single country in a linear series without 

 numerous hiati. 



Sp. 102. GRALLINA PICATA. 



Pied Grallina. 



Gracula picafa, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. 29. 



Tanypus Ausb-alis, Op pel. 



Grallina melanoleuca, Vieill. Anal, d'une Nouv. Orn., pp. 42 and 68. 



Cracticus cyanoleuca, Vieill. 2^ Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. v. 



p. 356. 

 Grallina Australis, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd Edit., p. 33. 



picata, Strickl. in Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xi. p. 335. 



cyanoleuca, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 204. 



Coi-vus cyanoleucos, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 49. 

 Magpie Lark, Colonists of New South Wales. 

 Little Magpie, Colonists of Swan River. 



By-yoo-gool-yee-de and Dil-a-but, Aborigines of Western Australia. 



Grallina australis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. pi. 54. 



Future research will, in all probability, ascertain that 

 this bird is universally dispersed over the greater portion 

 of Australia ; I have specimens in my collection from New 

 South Wales, Swan River, and Port Essington, all of which 

 are so closely alike that no character of sufficient importance 

 to establish a second species can be detected. Those that 

 came under my observation in New South Wales frequented 

 alluvial flats, sides of creeks and rivulets. 



Pew of the Australian birds are more attractive or more 

 elegant and graceful in its actions, and these, combined 

 with its tame and familiar disposition, must ever obtain 

 for it the friendship and protection of the settlers, whose 

 verandahs and house-tops it constantly visits, running along 



