GRAKLE. 151 



grey ; tail rounded, the outer feather white, except at the base, the 

 rest white, lessening' as they are more inward, and the two middle 

 ones are wholly black. One of these was in the collection of General 

 Da vies. 



Inhabits the Coast of Malabar, and Coromandel, in India, and 

 there called Martin Brame, as it is chiefly seen about the tops of 

 pagodas ; but the name it is most known by is Powee or Powe-ner. 

 Mr. L. met with great flocks at the Cape of Good Hope, passing 

 from west to east, under 27 degrees of latitude South, where he first 

 fell in with the Cameleopard, but they rarely flew within gun-shot ; 

 he killed two males, but the natives did not seem to know the birds : 

 in India they are kept in cages for the sake of their song. 



One of these was seen alive at Mr. Kendrick's, in Piccadilly. 



6— MALABAR GRAKLE. 



Turdus Malabaricus, Ind. Orn. i. 333. Gm. Lin. i. 816. 

 Gracula Malabarica, Shaw's Zool. vii. 471. 

 Martin Vieillard, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 195. Daud. ii. 289. 

 Malabar Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 30. Id. Sup. 140. 



THIS is rather smaller than the last, and greatly similar in 

 markings. Length seven inches; it differs in the head, being of the 

 same colour with the body, and not furnished with a crest. The 

 bill is black, the tip yellowish ; head, and neck feathers long and 

 narrow, cinereous grey, with a streak of white down the shafts ; 

 back, rump, wings, and tail cinereous grey ; breast, belly, and under 

 tail coverts rufous brown ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits the Coast of Malabar, where it is kept in cages, and 

 called Powee, as the last ; in the Bengalese tongue Dessee Powee, 

 or Native Powee, so called by the people of Calcutta, from being 

 in that neighbourhood ; it builds in small bushes ; goes in flocks, 



