488 CLASS xvi. 



b) Cracticus VIEILL., GBAY. (Bill curved, somewhat straight at the 

 base, with tip hooked. Tail rounded.) 



Sp. Barita varia, Coracias varia GM., Cracticus cassicus GRAY, BUFF. PL enl. 

 628; New Guinea; Barita destructor TEMM., Cracticus torquatus GRAY, 

 TEMM. PL col. 273; New Holland. 



Pityriasis LESS. Bill strong, with tip hooked. Orbital region 

 naked. Head covered above with horny shafts, denuded, lamellose. 



Sp. Barita gymnocephala TEMM., Cracticus gymnocephalus GRAY, TEMM. PI. 

 col. 570; Borneo. 



Chalylceus Cuv., Phonigama LESS. (Phoniachema?) Bill mo- 

 derate, moderately curved, emarginate at the tip. Nostrils placed 

 in a fossa, surrounded by membrane, partly covered by plumes. 

 Wings with fourth, fifth and sixth quills subequal, fifth longest 

 of all. Tail long, rounded. 



Sp. Chalybceus paradisceus Cuv., Paradiscea viridis GM., BUFF, PL enl. 634 ; 

 New Guinea, &c. 



Pyrrhocorax Cuv., (add Fregilus ejusd.), TEMM. Bill moderate 

 or a little longer than head, slender, arched, compressed. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, covered with setaceous, recumbent plumes. Tarsi 

 covered anteriorly with scutes often obsolete above, with three or 

 four distinct below. Wings with fourth and fifth quills subequal, 

 fourth longest of all. 



Fregilus Cuv., Coracia BRISS., GBAY, (add Corcorax LESS., Cerco- 

 ronus CABAN.). Bill long, with tip entire. 



Sp. Pyrrhocorax graculus, Corvus graculus L., BUFF., PI. enl. 255, NAUM. 

 Taf. 57, fig. 2 ; violet-black, bill and legs red; the wings reach to the end 

 of the tail, which is straightly truncated. This bird lives on the lofty 

 mountains of Europe, and in winter descends into the plains. In Australia 

 is a species with black bill and black legs, and longer tail, Pyrrhocorax 

 leucopterus TEMM. (Corcorax) GRAY Gen. of Birds, PI. LXXVIII. 



Pyrrhocorax Cuv. Bill moderate, with tip emarginate. (Tail 

 broad, subeven, produced beyond the apex of wings.) 



Sp. Pyrrhocorax alpinus VIEILL., Corvus pyrrhocorax L., BUFF. PL enl. 531, 

 NAUM. 1. 1. fig. i, GUER. Icon., Ois. PL 12, fig. 3, on the Alps, the 

 mountains of the south of Europe, &c. CUVIER placed these birds close by 

 Turdus, and Pyrrhocorax, on the contrary, as a sub-genus with Upupa. 



Podoces FISCHER. (Is this its place ?) 



Sp. Podoces Panderi. Cons, on this bird C. L. BONAPARTE Conspectus 

 generum Avium (L. B. 1850), p. 388. 



