152 GRAKLE. 



and lives on seeds and fruit. Dr. Buchanan observes, that it is not 

 a Variety of the Pagoda Species, yet the two have great affinity in 

 size and shape, but differ in colour. 



A bird, seemingly a Variety, was seven inches and half in length. 

 Bill one inch, stout, yellow ; head and throat furnished with short, 

 stiff, grey feathers ; through the eye rufous brown ; the rest of the 

 plumage fine rufous brown, inclining to the latter on the belly and 

 vent ; quills and tail dusky ; legs rough and scaly, pale oker yellow ; 

 wings and tail nearly even. Found at Sierra Leone. In another 

 drawing a black streak begins at the gape, passes round the eye, and 

 ends in a point just behind. Probably this may differ in sex. 



7 —GREY GRAKLE. 



Gracula grisea, Daud. ii. 286. Shaw's Zool. vii. 469. 

 Martin gris de fer, Levail. Ois. ii. 187. pi. 95. f. 2. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch long, orange ; head black, 

 the feathers narrow and stiff; irides red-brown ; behind the eyes a 

 triangular, narrow, bare, orange-coloured space ; beneath from the 

 chin and upper parts of the body iron-grey, tending to fulvous on the 

 neck and breast, and to brown on the nape ; from breast to belly a 

 band the colour of polished beech wood ; under tail coverts the same ; 

 quills black, the ten first white at the base ; on the wing a tri- 

 angular rufous spot ; lesser quills glossed with green or purple on the 

 margins ; tail short, rounded, glossy black, the four outer feathers 

 marked with clay-colour at the ends ; wings reach three-fourths on 

 the tail ; legs citron-colour. In one specimen I observed, that all but 

 the two middle tail feathers were orange at the end. 



The female is smaller, and the colours less bright. 



Inhabits Africa. — M. Levaillant met with three females and two 

 males at the foot of Bruntjes Hoogte, on the borders of the Bird 



