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instead of ash-grey, by the throat being darker, and also the smoky brown of the back 

 being many shades deeper. The species that is found in the Pelew Islands I have 

 never seen. 



CAMPEPHAGID^. 



Geaucalus, Cuvier. 



74. * Graucalus steiatus. (PI. XXX. fig. 1.) 



Choucas de la Nouvelle Guinee, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 629, ? vel s juv- 



Le Choucas de la Nouvelle GuinSe', Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 80 (1775). 



Corvus striatus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 38, ex D'Aubent. (1783). 



Corvus novce-Guinece, Gm. S. N. i. p. 371, no. 28 (1788), ex MontbeiUard; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 



156, no. 14. 

 Coracina fasciata, Vieill.^ Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 8 (1817), ex D'Aubent. 

 Ceblepyris plumbea, Wagler, Syst. Av. Corvus, p. 322 (1827), ex Gm. 

 Graucalus dussuniieri, Lesson^, Tr. d'Om. p. 349, ? vel 6 juv., "Manilla"* (1831) ; Jacquin. & 



Pucberan, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. iii. p. 65, pi. 8. fig. 1, $ , fide Pucher., " Samboagan, island of 



Mindanao ; " Pucberan, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 363. 

 Graucalus lagunensis, Bp. Compt. Rend. vol. xxxviii. p. 540, cJ adult, " Ins. PbiUpp." (March 20, 



1854) ; Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, p. 77 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 445, e, $," Philippines." 

 Graucalus dussuniieri, Lesson, Blytb, J. A. S. B. 1861, p. 96; Gray, Hand-list, no. 5070. 

 Graucalus lagunensis, Bp., Blyth, I. c, ; Gray, op. cit. no. 5080. 

 Corvus papuensis, apud v. Kittlitz, Liitke, Voy. (Postels) iii. p. 326, nee Gm. 



Eab. Luzon, January, April ; Negros, March (Met/er) ; Mindanao (Jacquinot). 



Dr. Meyer obtained six examples of this handsome Graucalus, representing three 

 distinct phases of plumage. Two have, with the exception of the upper tail-coverts and 

 lower feathers on the rump, the whole plumage of a dark plumbeous grey, the lores 

 being jet-black. The lower plumage is somewhat paler than the upper, more especially 

 that of the ventral region. A few of the upper tail-coverts and rump-feathers are 

 fringed with pale grey. This is the fully adult male plumage^ (G. lagunensis, Bp.). 



A third example has the head, neck, back, and breast dark plumbeous grey ; but 



' MontbeiUard leaves it to be inferred that tbia title (involving, as it does, the origin of the type) was bestowed 

 by D'Aubenton. 



- This author pretends also to describe the female and the young male ; but it is impossible to determine what 

 species he describes from. 



' This title and the accompanying references are omitted in Dr. Hartlaub's 'Monograph' (J.f. 0. 1864, p. 444); 

 nor is it included in his valuable index to Pucheran's papers on the types in the Paris Museum {op. cit. 1855). 

 Correctly enough, however, only one species of the true Grauccdits is enumerated by Dr. Hartlaub from the 

 Philippines. 



•' Dr. Pucberan also states that Lesson's type came from Luzon. 



' It may also be that of the adult female, it being an unascertained fact whether in both sexes of the large 

 Cuckoo-shrikes the adult plumage is the same. One of the two above described is labelled by Dr. Meyer 

 " a male," and the other " a female ; " but I am not quite sure that imphcit confidence can be placed in the 

 sexual determinations indicated on Dr. Meyer's labels. 



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