150 CAMPEPHAGIN &. 
nishing in amount, until it disappears completely on the feathers 
near the body; tail-feathers all the same color as the back, with 
black tips about three-quarters of an inch long ; chin and throat 
isabelline ; breast grey, like the back; abdomen and _ lower tail- 
coverts pinkish-isabelline ; under wing-coverts light grey. 
A. single specimen was obtained in Sind, by Mr. Blanford, on 
the lower hills of the Kirthur Range, which forms the boundary 
between Sind and Khelat. 
It has not been procured elsewhere within our range. 
Grnus, Graucalus, Cuvier. 
Bill strong, deep, of moderate length, wide at the base; 
culmen tolerably curved and hooked, slightly toothed; a few 
weak rictal bristles; wings rather long, pointed ; tail moderate, 
slightly rounded, or nearly even, with the two outer feathers 
shorter; tarsus and toes moderate; claws well curved, of rather 
large size. 
Graucalus macii, Zess. 
270.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 417; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 464; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 393; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 126; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 65. 
THE LARGE CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Length, 12; wing, 6°5; tail, 5; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0°87. 
Bill blackish ; irides rich-lake ; legs plumbeous. : 
Whole upper plumage light plumbeous-grey, paling on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail with the two central feathers 
grey, the rest dusky-black, the two outer ones on each side tipped 
white, and the outermost also edged with white; beneath, neck 
and breast, light grey, slightly tinged with reddish-ash on the 
breast ; abdomen greyish-white, with numerous narrow cross 
stripes, white on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts. 
Mr. Hume remarks that “Dr. Jerdon does not point out the 
difference that exists between the adults of the two sexes in all 
the races of this species. In the young of both sexes, the whole of 
the lower parts, except the vent and lower tail-coverts, are more 
or less regularly transversely barred: as the bird grows older, the 
bars disappear in both sexes from the chin, throat and breast, 
the whole of which parts become pale grey ; more or less barring 
remains for a time on the abdomen in both sexes, and indeed 
always remains in the female even in the most perfect plumage. 
In the male, as time goes on, the chin, throat and breast become 
a darker grey, and the markings disappear entirely from the 
abdomen, the upper portions of which become tinged with 
grey. ; 
Moreover, the black eye-streak becomes much more strongly 
marked in the male than it ever is in the female, and the points 
of the forehead, which always remain grey in the female, become 
