496 



This species is also found in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and 

 other of the larger islands. 



Habits, fyc. The eggs are described by Hume as being greenish 

 white marked with brown, olivaceous brown, and purplish grey, and 

 as measuring about *86 by '62. The nest has not been described. 



Genus GRAUCALUS, Cuvier, 1817. 



The genus Graucalus differs from Campopliaya in having a very 

 long pointed wing and a relatively more massive bill. The two 

 Indian species are birds of comparatively large size. The sexes 

 differ in colour. These birds are arboreal, frequenting only the 

 well- wooded portions of the country or forests. They feed on 

 insects which they pick off leaves and their notes are mellow and 

 pleasant. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Tail broadly tipped with white G. macii, p. 496. 



b. Tail nearly entirely black G. dobsoni, p. 497. 



510. Graucalus macii. The Large Cuckoo- Shrike. 

 Graucalus macei, Less. Traite, p. 349 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 190 ; 



Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 360 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 34 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 270; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 267; Gates, B. B. i, p. 228; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 150; Oates in Hume's N. Sf JE. 2nd ed. i, 

 p. 348. 



Graucalus layardi, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 368; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 117 ; Hume, Cat. no. 270 bis. 



Kasya, Hind. ; Kabasi, Beng. ; Pedda dkurai, Tel. ; Talliny-pho, 

 Lepch. 



Fig. 145. Head of G. macii. 



Coloration. Male. Upper plumage grey, paler on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; the region of the nostrils, the lores, and the 

 feathers about the gape black ; sides of the face and of the neck 

 similar to the upper plumage ; ear-coverts dusky ; chin, throat, 

 breast, and upper abdomen grey, rather lighter than the upper 



