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Gracula faularis, Lin. Syft.i. p. 165. N°6, 8. 



La Pie-griefche noire de Bengale, Brif. em. ii. 184. & Suppl. p. 41. N° 19. DIAL 



—Buf. oif. i. p. 299. 

 Saulary mas & feemina, Raii Syn. p. 197. pi. 2. f. 19, 20. 

 Little Indian Pie, Ediv. 181. 

 Bengal Magpie, or Dial-bird, Albin. iii. t. 17, 18. 



C1ZE of the Miffel-thrufh. The bill is black: irides yellow : Description. 



the corners of the mouth tinged with the fame: the head, 

 neck and breaft, back, rump, and upper tail coverts, are black : 

 the belly, fides, thighs, and under' tail coverts, white \ the wing 

 coverts next the body, and lefTer quills, are alfo white ; the outer 

 wing coverts and quills are black: the tail is even at the end, 

 black above, and white beneath : legs and claws brown. 



The female differs in colour, being of a dark brown on the fore Female. 



part of the neck and breaft, where the male is black ; and the 

 white parts not fo clear, though the upper parts of the body are 

 black, as in the male. 



Edwards fays, that the two middle tail feathers are black, and 

 the reft white. 



Buff on makes this a Shrike,'^ does Briffon ■, but I really think 

 that the firft cannot mean the fame bird with Edwards, if it be 

 that figured in the Planches enluminees *, as we fee there the bill of 

 a Shrike very clearly j befides this, the tail is very much cunei- 

 form, whereas that of Edwards is even at the end. 



Inhabits Bengal. Place. 



* >PL ent. 477. f. r. which is clearly the collared Strike, p. 163. 



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