PASSEEES. 

 Fam. CAMPOPHAGID.E. 

 Bill generally stout, moderately hooked and moderately notched ; generally thick at the base, 

 rather widened ; the nostrils hidden. Wings in most species lengthened, never short. 



Shrike-like birds of soft plumage ; the feathers of the lower back and rump with stiffened 

 shafts. (Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iv. p. 7.) 



Genus GRAUCALUS. 

 Bill stout, massive, wide at base ; culmen keeled and much decurved, with the tip notched 

 distinctly. Nostrils covered with setaceous feathers; rictal bristles moderate; the lores bristly. 

 Head massive. Wings long; the 4th quill the longest, and the 1st less than half the length of 

 the 4th. Tail tolerably long, and slightly graduated at the exterior. Tarsus longer than the 

 middle toe. Feet strong, claws curved and strong. 



GKAUCALUS MACII. 



(THE LARGE INDIAN CUCKOO-SHRIKE.) 



Graucalus macii, Lesson, Traite, p. 349 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S.B. p. 190 (1849) ; 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 173; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 417 (1862); 

 Blyth, Ibis, I860, p. 368; Hume, Nests and Eggs,i. p. 181 (1873); Walden, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 310 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 204 ; Adam, t. c. p. 400 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, 

 p. 94; Butler, t. c . p. 464; Blyth & Waldon, B. Burm. p. 123 (1875); Armstrong, 

 Str. Feath. 1876, p. 316 ; Hume, ibid. 1877, p. 29 ; Fairbank, i.e. p. 400; Hume & 

 Davison, ibid. 1878, p. 210; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iv. p. 34 (1879). 



Graucalus nipalensis, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. i. p. 327. 



Campephaga maeei (Less.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 (1845) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 123 

 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 128. 



Graucalus layardi, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 368; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 117 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 437; Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 311; Hume, Stray Feath. 1873, p. 435; Legge, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 287. 



Maces Caterpillar-catcher, Kelaart ; The Large Caterpillar-catcher. Kasya, Hind. ; Kabasi, 

 Beng. ; Pedda akurai, Tel., lit. " Large File-bird." 



Adult nail' and female. Length 101 to 104 inches ; wing 5*8 to 6*05 ; tail 4-3; tarsus 1*0 to LI ; mid toe 085, 

 claw (straight) 0-30 ; hind toe 0"5, claw (straight) 0-35; bill to gape 1*3 to 1-4. These measurements are from 

 a good series of Ceylonese examples, in which the females average the larger of the sexes. 



Ins reddish brown, variable in intensity of colour; bill black ; legs and feet black, edges of tarsal scales whitish. 



Male. Above the nostril, lores, round the eye, and the gape and point of chin jet-black, passing into blackish on the 

 ear-coverts. The feathers of the lores are bristly. Above slate-grey (individuals varying in depth of colour), paler 

 on the forehead and rump, which latter part is indistinctly barred with white ; head and back in some examples 

 with dark shafts ; wing^coverts duskier than the back and with dark shafts : wings and tail black, the former 



