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2. 
CRESTED 
Gr. 
DESGRIPTION. 
3. 
EGYPTIAN 
Gr. 
DEscRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
4. 
ABYSSINIAN 
Gr. 
DascripTion. 
Pracs, 
GoR AK oy Ee. 
Gracula criftatella, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 192. 8. 
Quifcale criftatelle, Daudin. Oru. ii. p. 320. 
Crefted Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 464. 7.—Id. Sup. p. go. 
NE of thefe, or very like, is in the Briti/b Mufeum, which came 
from the Mabratta country in India: the forehead is moderately 
crefted : length of the bird nine inches and a half: bill and legs yellow : 
the plumage is brown, but the head and neck are black; the laft in- 
clining to dufky+ the greater quills are white, but black towards the 
tips: fecond quills like the back: under tail coverts white: tail 
black, more than three inches in length; the feathers of it decreafing 
in length a trifle towards the middle: the ends of all the feathers are 
white, but the two middle ones the leaft in proportion, being only 
tipped with white. 
Gracula Atthis, Izd. Orz. i. p. 192. to» 
Quifcale Atthis, Daudin. Orn. i. p. 321. 
Egyptian Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 466. 9. 
HE only reprefentation I have feen of this, is among the drawings 
of the late Mr. Bruce: the colour of the plumage is green, but 
onthe ears, the axilla, and under parts, a purplifh blue: tail blue 
green: bill and legs black. 
This is faid to inhabit Abyfinia, where it is known by the name of 
Warda*. 
IZE of the laft: bill black: irides ftraw colour: head deep afh 
colour: body green, ending in a point on the breaft: beneath the 
body dull ferruginous orange: legs. black. 
Found in byfinia, with the laft {fpecies, to which it feems greatly 
allied. 
* Sonnini calls it Egyptian Raven. See Trav. (Engl. ed.) ii. p. 239. Note °. 
