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Graucatus*, Cuv.—Cnovcaris, Buff. 
The bill less compressed than in the Shrikes; the upper ridge is sharp 
pointed, and equally arcuated in its whole length, the commissure slightly 
so. The feathers, which sometimes cover their nostrils, have caused them 
to be referred to the Ravens, but the emargination of their bill removes 
them from that genus. ‘They come, as well as the Cassicans, from the 
remotest parts of the Indian Ocean}. 
To the Choucaris should be referred one of the most beautiful birds 
recently discovered in these regions, the coracias puella, Lath.; irena pu- 
ella, Horsfield; drongo azuré, Tem., a bird of Java, of a velvet black, 
whose back is the most beautiful deep sea blne that can be imagined. 
Betuyivs,t Cuv. 
The bill stout, short, arched every where, slightly compressed near the 
point. 
One species only is known, which, as to shape and colour, is a 
miniature resemblance of the common European Magpie §. 
Fatcuncutus, Vieill. 
The bill compressed, nearly as high as it is long; the upper ridge 
arcuated. 
The species known—Lanius frontatus, Lath.; Second Suppl. 
Col. 77; Vieill. Galer. 137, is of the size of the Finch, and colour- 
ed nearly like the Parus major. The feathers on the head of the 
male form a tuft. From New Holland. 
Parpatortus, Vieill. 
The bill short, but slightly compressed; upper ridge sharp-pointed, 
and arcuated; the point emarginate. Very small birds, with a short 
tail, 
The best known species, Pipra punctata, Sh. Zool. Misc. IT; 
the Psaris erythrogenis, Selby, Zool. Jour. I. p. 484.—The Pachyrhynchus, niger, 
Cuvieri, cinerascens, rufescens, Spix, 45 and 46, have a smaller bill but the same 
form. 
* Graucalus, the Greek name of an ash-coloured bird, three out of four of these 
being of this colour. Vieillot confounds them with his Coracina, which comprise 
the Gymnoderus and Gymnocephalus, of which we shall speak hereafter. 
+ Corvus papuensis, Gm.; Enl. 630; Vieill. Galer. 113.—Corvus nove Guinee, 
Enl. 629.—Corvus melanops, Lath.—Rollier & masque noir, Vaill., Ois. de Par., &c. 86. 
—Another, entirely of a brilliant violet of browned steel, the female greenish, which 
forms the genus Prrontyt of Temm., or Prinonoruyncuus of Kuhl, founded on 
the head feathers being more like velvet. The genus SpHecorueEre of Vieill., 
Galer. 147, Choucari vert of the Voy. du Freycinet, pl. xxi, only differs from the 
others in being a little more naked about the eye. 
{ Bethylus, the Greek name of an unknown bird: Vieillot has changed it into that 
of Pillurion or Cissoris. 
§ It is the Pie-griéche, Vaill. Afr. 60, and Vieill. Galer. 140. Lanius leveriunus, 
Sh.; Lanius picatus, Lath. Illiger makes a Tangara of it. We may approximate it 
to the Lan. corvinus, Sh.; Vaill. Afr. 78; the bill of which, however, is more com- 
pressed, 
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