AVES. 487 



The greater wing-coverts with external barb duplicated, the inferior 

 branches lax, decomposed. Tail elongate, graduate. 



Sp. Onychognathus fidgidus HABTL., GUER. Revue et Magas. de Zool. 1849, 

 PI. 14, figs, i, 3 ; habitat in the Island of St. Thomas on the coast of 

 Guinea. I have not seen the bird. 



Chlamydera GOULD. (Callodera previously.) Bill short, 

 curved. Nostrils oval, basal, open. Wings with third, fourth and 

 fifth quills ubequal, fourth longest of all. Tail long, even, sub- 

 divaricate at the apex. 



Sp. Chlamydera maculata GOULD, &c. Shy birds of New Holland; the 

 species here noted is brown above with ferruginous spots, grey below with 

 black wavy bands, whilst the male is ornamented with some red-violet, 

 glossy, truncated feathers in the neck. 



Ptilorhynchus KUHL. (Species of Kitta TEMM.) Bill short, 

 high, curved, emarginate. Nostrils basal, covered entirely by 

 curved feathers in males (in females partly covered). Wings with 

 third, fourth and fifth quills subequal, fourth longest of all. Tail 

 somewhat short, even. 



Sp. Ptilorhynchus holosericeus KUHL, Pyrrhocorax violaceus VIEILL., TEMM. 

 PI. col. 395 male, 422 fern., LESS. Ornith. PL 46, fig. i, male, &c. Birds 

 of the size of Corvus monedula, which KUHL first characterised as a dis- 

 tinct genus, Beitrdge zur Zoologie, Frankf. a. M. 1820, s. 150, 151. These 

 are two species belonging to Australia, to which may be added another 

 species of New Guinea, which is smaller, Kitta buccoides TEMM. PI. 

 col 575. 



Barita Cuv. (Cracticus VIEILL.) Bill long, moderately curved, 

 with culmen flat, the semicircular base produced amongst the 

 feathers of the forehead, tip emarginate. Nostrils basal, open, 

 narrow, linear, parallel to the margin of mandibles. Tarsi long, 

 covered anteriorly with large elongated scutes, sometimes obsolete. 

 Wings with third, fourth and fifth quills subequal, fourth mostly 

 longest of all. Tail somewhat long, rounded, or subeven. 



a) Strepera LESS., Coronica GOULD (add Gymnorhina GRAY). 



Sp. Baiita strepera, Corous strepera LATH., Corvus graculinus WHITE, Bot. 

 Bay, PI. 36, p. 251, GUER. Icon., Ois. PI. 6, fig. 3 Barita tfiricen QUOY 

 et GAIM., GymnorUna leucota, GRAY Gen. of Birds, PI. LXXIII. ; Barita 

 anaphonensis TEMM., Gymnorhina anaphonensis GRAY, LESS. Ornith. PI. 

 47, fig. i, &c. ; species from New Holland. 



