192 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



All the members of the present genus are of large size 

 compared with the other forms of the family. 



Sp. 103. GRAUCALUS MELANOPS. 



Black-faced Graucalus. 



Corvus melanops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxiv. no. 1. 



Ceblepyris melanops, Temm. Man., p. Ixii. 



Rollier a masque noir, Le Vaill, Ois. de Parad., pl. 30. 



Black-faced Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 116. 



Graucalus melanops, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 216. 



melanotis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 143, and in 



Syn. Birds of Australia, part iv. Young. 

 Campephaga melanops, G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm. and Birds of New 



Guinea in Brit. Mus., p. 32. 

 Kai-a-lora, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Nu-lar-go, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. 

 Blue Pigeon of the Colonists. 



Graucalus melanops, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. pl. 55. 



New South Wales, Tasmania, Swan River, and Port 

 Essington are each inhabited by Graucali so nearly allied, 

 that by many persons it would be considered questionable 

 whether they were not referable to one and the same species ; 

 but as this is by no means certain, I shall confine my remarks 

 to the bird inhabiting New South Wales, which is one of the 

 largest of the genus yet discovered, which is distinguished 

 from its near allies by the greater depth of the blue- grey 

 colouring of the upper surface, and to which the synonyms 

 given above refer. 



The Graucalus melanops, then, is a very common bird in 

 New South Wales, but is far less numerous in winter than in 

 summer, when it is so generally dispersed over the colony, 

 that to particularize situations in which it may be found is 

 quite unnecessary ; hills of moderate elevation, flats, and 

 plains thinly covered with large trees being alike resorted to ; 



