¥138 
BAe 
WHITE- 
CHEEKED 
CR. 
DescRievion: 
PLACE, 
20. 
RUFOUS- 
BELLIED 
CR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
Bo Re Ov Wes 
IZE uncertain: bill dufky; legs pale: the head is tufted, or rather 
fuller of feathers than the reft of the body, and is, as well as the 
neck, breaft, and belly, black: the feathers of the chin and breaft 
margined with white ; on the ear a white patch: back, wings, and tail 
olive green: quills dull ruft colour: the fhape of the tail cunciform ; 
the outer feathers tipped wich white. ; 
Inhabits New Holland, and at firft fight feems to refemble fomewhat 
the White-eared Fay, but differs in not having the forehead whitifh, 
nor does the white patch come fo near the eye as in that bird; be- 
fides, the fhape of the tail is cuneiiorm in the prefent defcribed, but 
in the White-eared Fay it is fimply rounded at the end. 
La Pie A culotte de peau, Lewarll. Oi/- ii. p. 20. pl. 55. 
HIS is about the fize of a Blackbird, but differs in having a 
cuneiform tail, which is half as long again as the bird: the 
whole of the plumage is glofly black, with a tinge of blue in fome 
lights ; but the feathers of the belly, thighs, and vent, are of a fleth 
colour, or pale rufous, and the vent rather inclines to brown: the 
bill and legs are black. 
This bird is figured from one in the collection of M. Ray de Breu- 
kelerward, of Amfterdam, and {aid to have been brought from one of 
the South Sea ifles. It feems to have fome affinity to the Senegal Crow, 
from its fhape and cuneiform tail: the bill is not fo ftrong in pro- 
portion as in the Magpie, but more approaching to that of the 
Thrufhes. In this fingle fpecimen, were obferved only eight feathers 
in the tail, and onthe moft minute inveftigation, no traces of more 
could be found ; if it be really the cafe with others of the fame fpecies, 
as may be known hereafter, it is, we believe, a fingular occurrence, as 
although frequently more, we do not at prefent know any bird which 
has fewer than ten feathers in its tail. 
