150 CAMPEPHAGINJ3. 



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. 



GENUS, 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, Less. 



270. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 417 ; Butler, Guzerat; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, 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 ; hides 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 



