254 GENUS GRACULA. (June, 



the under; irides pale straw colour; tongue cartilaginous 

 and bifid; tail of a deep black colour, slightly glossed 

 with green, composed of twelve feathers, and measures 

 from its insertion eight inches in length; rump, thighs 

 and vent plain black; shoulders of wings with, a steel-blue 

 gloss; back, lower parts, and lesser-coverts with a green^ 

 ish gloss. 



Female, Length twelve and a half, breadth seventeen 

 and a half, inches; bill to angle of mouth an inch and a 

 half long; head 2iW^ neck 2hoYt umber-brown; back, wings 

 and tail liver-brown; breast and lower parts pale yellow^ 

 ish brown, darkest on the breast; jianks pale umber; in 

 some specimens the abdomen was of a dirty wood-brown; 

 back, scapulars, and lesser wing -coverts with faint green- 

 ish reflections; over the eyes a yellowish streak; the other 

 parts as in the male. In one specimen the iris was brown, 

 its outer edge pale yellow. The upper tertials, in both 

 sexes, when closely examined, are found to have a waved 

 appearance. 



\ GRACULA barita. 



Linn. Gmel. i, /2. 396 — 4. — Boat-tailed Grakle, Lath. Gf/v. 

 Sijn. \jfi. 460 — 5. — Penn. »/^rc;. Zool.\,/i. 3Q9 — 154. — Sturmis qiiU- 

 cala, DxvBi^i tome ii, fi. 316. — Gracula fiurjiurea, the lesser Pur- 

 fi!^ JackdarOiOr Crovj Blackbird, Bartram, /2.291. — Gracula cjuis- 

 cala, Wilson's Jmericaii Ornithology, "vol. 'in, p. 44, fil. 21, 



Black, with resplendent reflections; the roof of the 

 upper mandible furnished with a large osseous carina, 

 two eighths of an inch long; tail cuneiform; length thir- 



