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black, half white : the others white on the outer 

 margins : the quills the same : tail two inches and a 

 half long, even, fringed at- the tip with white : at the 

 middle of the back a very large tuft of downy white 

 feathers, standing up like a puff: legs black. The 

 supposed opposite sex has the black of a dusky hue ; 

 the puff-like tuft ash-coloured, the under parts dirty 

 white. 



GENUS LXXX.— GRAUCALUS. Cuvier. 

 Mostrum crassum, subcom- Beak thick, somewhat com- 



pressum,basi plumigerum, 

 apice deflexum ; mandi- 

 oula superior carinata, 

 arcuata ; inferior subtus 

 plana. 



pressed, its base clothed 

 with feathers, its tip de- 

 flected ; the tipper man- 

 dible carinated, bent; the 

 lox&er plane. 



Coracina pars. Vieillot. — Ceblepyris pars, Temm. 



The Graucali appear to be confined to the Indian 

 Archipelago, and to the extensive continent of Aus- 

 tralasia. 



Sp. 1. Gr. papuensis. 



Corvus papuensis. Shaw, v. vii. p. 354. — New Guinea. 



Sp. 2. Gr. Novae Guineas. 



Corvus Novae Guineas. Shatu, v. vii. p. 354. — New Guinea. 

 Sp. 3. Gr. melanops. 

 Gv.. cinereus facie juguloque nigris ; rectricibus lateralibus apice 



nigris. 

 Cinereous Graucalus with the face and jugulum black ; the lateral 



tail-feathers black at the tip. 

 Corvus melanops. Lath. Incl. Orn. Sap>. xxiv. — Rollier a masque 



noir. Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. Ois. de Paradis, &c. pi. 30. — 



Black-faced Crow. — Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 116. 



