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CORACINA. 



rt will not fail to bide it-)f there, and by thi. 

 to beet iteelf violently, which H doss when 

 it of He fright I 1 kno"* '** mUtnss very 

 .. it un, 'come* new her, and site without any fear on 

 nVwbAs^wHhont stirring. Tbi. U far a. itgo.. 

 U is neither caressing nur familiar : when 



esjsd it vstan hsrsh cries, softer one* when ite food i* brought ^but 



crag, crag, crssfc' at the aune lime raising its head, U the expression 



* oZJ&^rJlM^Lbumu,), the Mino-Bird, U the Beo and Mencho 

 of the Javanese. Teeong of the Sumetran*. snd is referred by Mr. Swain- 

 son to the awmatex Mr. O. R. Gray arranges it under the family 



to the sub-family (JrefWi-i. Mr. Swaiiuon state, that 

 has convinced him that neither the Roller* nor the bird in 

 (ton belong to the Oonida ; and be remark* that the little value 

 ten trtsMrrti-' 1 to speculation* on the rank of Uie present genera 

 le Bd*d anon mere srntbesto, will beet appear by looking to those 



^Si.r.^w;^ S^q>' 



M Lesson place, thi* bird next to the Roller*, and among the 



The general opinion 

 Mino-Bird. 



to be that there U but one specie* of 



mo-uira. 



Cuvier however itates that Linntou* confounded two specie* under 

 the name of Grant/a rcligioia, namely, *laba Indicia aud Eulaba 

 /MKJMHL 



H. Lesson, who tUto* that only one specie* i known, namely, the 

 Mainate Religirux, '/mm/a rrityiota, Linn., Boo and Mencho of the 

 Javaneee, remark* afterward* that there is Raid to be a smaller variety : 

 thi* i* probably the Eulaba Jndictu above noticed. 





JI.no.Blrd (Gnnla rafyioM). (K*>ot*i JCMMM, VleUl.) 



U i* the type of Cuvier"* genua E*Jahn, which ha* the following 

 uhsjuiitMrs : BUI nhort, (tout, not to long as the head ; entirely com- 

 pneaed. Frontal feather* advancing far upon the bam, but not 

 dividing MM front. Culmen gradually curved from the baee to the 

 tip, which to diaUnctly notched. Commiwure but slightly angnlated. 

 Under mandible with the baae broad and dilated. Nostril* basal, 

 naked, round, mink in a depression. Krontal feather* short, velvety. 

 Head with naked wattle*. Wing* a* in Pastor. Tail short, even. 

 Feet rather abort, vary strong. Tamus and middle toe equal ; hinder 

 to* shorter; inner to* almost equal to the outer toe. (8w.) 



IU colour i* of a deep velvety black ; a white space in the middle 

 of the wing ; bin and feet yellow ; behind the eye spring fleshy ca 

 mnde* of a bright orange-colour, and extend beyond the occiput 



It i* food in Java, Sumatra, and the great Eastern Islands. 



Insects aad fruit, form the food of the Mino-Hinl. which i* easily 

 tested, end learn* to whistle and talk with great facility. With the 

 native* it to a great favourite in consequence. Msrsden says of it 

 that it ha* the beaky of imfesUng human speech in greater perfection 

 then any other of the feethered tribe. B-mliu.. who term* it Pica 

 ra eerie* Aente* /nafeM, beads the chapter where be figures I 

 describe* H, with the following line* :- 



rumens Bel* eesavl* uM silMM *b erl< 

 Jesi* lesesr : vtoatt aw nrs u (amis* Isdoa." 



Aad teib th* following story : There was, when he was in Ratavia, 

 an old Javanese woman, the servant of a Chinee* gardener, who kep 

 on* of the** birds, which was vary loquacious. Bontiu* was ver 

 anxiovs to boy it, bat thi* the old women would not hear of. H 

 then be*xed that abe would at least lend it to him that iu picture 

 light be taken, a request which was at last granted with no very 

 good greee, th* andvnt Mohammedan dame being under great appre- 

 m^-n that Booth* would offer that abomination, pork, to he 

 beloved bird. This he promised not to do, and bad the loan of th 

 MID... which kept continually saying " Ormnit Xasarani Catjor Macan 

 Babt " Thto. MAS; interprated, mean* "Christian Dog, Eater of 

 Pork;" and Bontlos csn> to th* conclu*ion tliat tt.^ unwillingness o 

 th* oU women arc** not only from the fear of her bird being dese- 

 crated by an offer of swine * flesh, but slso from th* apprehension 

 that be or hi* B*rvsnU, irritated by it* contumelies, would wring its 

 neck. M. Lesson also saw one at Java which knew whole phrases o 

 th* Malay leogiskge. 



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The last-mentioned ornithologist applies the old Indian word Mino 

 a* a generic term for a very different bird, Mino Dumontii, described 

 by him in the ' Zoology of the Coquille,' and there figured at pi. 26. 

 He is also of opinion that Gracula calva, Linn., should be added to 

 this genus. 



CORA'CINA.a genus of Bird*, separated from the Crows (Corrida) 

 by Vieillot, and divided by him into four sections. The first comprises 

 those species which have the bill furnished at its base with velvety 

 feathers (Les Col-Nun, 'naked necks') ; the second those whose nostrils 

 are covered with setaceous feathers, directed forwards, and whose 

 upper mandible is notched towards the end (Leg Chouearis, Grattcalui) ; 

 the third those whose bill is naked at the base, and notched at the 

 point (Coracina gymnoeepluUa, Vieillot; Corrw calmu, Latham, for 

 example) ; and the fourth, that curious species on which Qeoffroy- 

 Saint-Hilaire founded his genus Cephaloptenu. 



Cuvier, in the last edition of the ' Rogue Animal,' defines Gravcalui 

 to be the Greek name of an ash-coloured bird (oiseau cendre 1 ), and 

 says that three Choiicari* out of four are of that colour. M. Vieillot, 

 he adds, confounds theee birds with his Cvratiiur, which comprise th* 

 Gfmnoderi and the Oymnm-'iihnli. 



M. Lesson, who places the group under the A mptlidrr, observe* that 

 the genus Coracina is far from being determined. Thus, he observes, 

 M. Vieillot place* under it the CrphalopUrut of M. Geoffroy-Ssiint 

 Hilaire, the Choucari* and the Col-Nu, or Oytnnodtnu. (He might 

 have added the Gymnoctphalui of (leoffroy and Cuvier.) Temmiuck 

 add* to it many of the Cotingtu of Le Vaillant ; but for his own 

 (Lesson's) part, he adopts the term Coracina for that group of birds 

 which Cuvier has collected together under the name of Piauhaui. 



Coracina, Lesson (Coracina, Temminck ; Les Piauhaus, Colinga, 

 Cuvier ; Pisuhau, QvxrWo, Vieillot). Bill depressed, smooth, ciliated 

 at the base, thick, narrowed at the point, angular above, a little curved 

 towards the end, slightly toothed at the point ; lower mandible a little 

 flattened below ; head and neck feathered, but without any ornamental 

 plumes, and without any naked skin. 



C. teutala, Temminck and Latham. This species differ* but little 

 from Coracina rubricollu, Mutcicapa rubricollu, of Omelin, in the 

 colour of it* plumage, but the wings are shorter. In C. rubrirollit the 

 plumage is all black, with the exception of the throat aud front of 

 the neck, which are of a purpled rose-colour. In C. iculata, the red, 

 which cover* the throat and breast, goes as low a* the upper part of 

 the belly, and the bill is not black a* it is in C. rubricoUit. It is found 

 In Brazil, which is also the habitat of C. rubricollu. 



Oymnoctphal<u(Coracinn, Vieillot). M. Lesson observe* that Messrs. 

 Vieillot and Temminck place the Oymnoffphali (Bald-Heads) among 

 the CoraciiuT, and that Cuvier content* himcelf with observing that 

 Corvtu calnu, Latham, the type of thi* new genus, ha* the bill of the 

 Tyrant*, with the ridge (culmen) a little more arched, and a great 

 portion of the face denuded ot feathers. Le Vaillant, he states, 

 regarded thi* denudation of the skin in the front of the head a the 



