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Grallina melanoleuca. Vieill. Anal, d'une Nouvelle Orn. pp. 42. 



4- 68. 

 La Gralline noire et blanche. Id. Gal. des Ois. pi. 150. 



We feel much uncertainty respecting the natural station of this 

 genus of M. Vieillot. That gentleman places it in the same 

 division with the Thrushes, next to his genus Psaroidos {Pastor, 

 Temni. j ; and from the size of the typical species and its general 

 appearance, such a situation may be assigned it with much pro- 

 bability of being near the truth. Our specimens, both of this 

 species and of the next, which seems to belong to the same 

 group, are not in sufficiently good condition to enable us to 

 come to any decided opinion on this point. But as far as we 

 can judge from the general characters of the bird before us, it 

 strikes us that it bears a very great resemblance to the group of 

 Enicurus, Temm., which belongs to the neighbouring Island of 

 Java, and which is closely allied to the true Motacilla or the 

 Wagtails of Authors. The length of the legs, the depression of 

 the bill, and the general disposition of the colours, atibrd us some 

 grounds for such a supposition. We leave it in this place pro- 

 visionally for the present, until more perfect specimens are 

 before us, and some knowledge of the habits and anatomy of 

 the birds points out with certainty their station in nature. 



Our specimen was procured by Mr. Brown at Port Jackson 

 in 1802. 



2. BicoLOR. Grol. nigra, dorso albo-variegato ; scapularibus, 

 strigâ humerali, fascia media alarum, abdomine caudceque 

 basi albis. 



Caput collumque intense nigra, colore nigro in medium pectus 

 angulariter descendente. Remiges supra nigroe, subtus 

 pallide fusca? ; tertiœ ad sextam inclusam pogonia interna, 

 cneterarum, duabus intimis exceptis, pogonia utrinque fas- 



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