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Subfam. 'riiAMNOPiiiLiNxV. Su oins. 

 Genus. Vang a. Vieill. 



1. Destructor. V. supra cinereo-fuscuH,subtusalbidus; capite, 

 genis, remigibus, rectricibusque nigris, illis albo-strigatis, his 

 apice albo-marginatis. 



Vanga Destructor. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. p. lix. 



Cassican Destructeur. Id. PL Col. 273. 



Mr. Caley thus observes on this species. " Butcher-bird. — 

 This bird used frecjuently to come into some green zcattle-trees 

 near my house, and in wet weather was very noisy ; from which 

 circumstance it obtained the name of Rain-bird. It appeared to 

 be a solitary bird, or at least to associate only with its mate." 



Genus. Colluricincla*. ^-4- 



Rostrum forte, sub-elongatum, compressum, rectum, culmine 

 apicem versus gradatim arcuato : mandibula inferiori prope 

 apicem fortiter emarginatà : naribus ovalibus subobliquis, 

 membrano partira clausis, setis plumulisque obtectis : rictu 

 setis parce instructis. 



Alœ médiocres rotundatai : remigibus, prima brevi, tertiâ quartâ 

 quintâ et sextâ ferè requalibus longissimis, septimâ breviori, 

 secundâ et octavâ paulo brevioribus a?qualibus ; tertiœ ad 

 sextam inclusam pogoniis externis in medio paulatim latio- 

 ribus. 



Pedes médiocres, fubfortes ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratarsiis 

 integris ; digitis mediocribus, medio longiori, halluce forti, 

 hujus ungue subelongato forti. 



Cauda subelongata, tequalis. 



* KoXKupiMv lanius, and Kiyx\o; tardm. 



This 



