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River, in their passage from the east to the north-west. The end of 

 the tail was worn, seemingly a proof of the bird building in holes 

 of some sort, or trailing much on the ground. 



Among Lord Mountnorris's birds, one had the whole head black; 

 the space behind the eye carunculated, narrow, and pointed; plumage 

 more or less brown above, aud all beneath from the chin white ; near 

 the outer edge of the coverts a triangular patch of white ; the tail 

 feathers with the ends white, and some of them white at the base. 

 Bill and legs pale yellow. This seems a Variety, and was called in 

 one drawing, Ablak Mainah — in a second, Sirwell Myna. 



8— GINGI GRAKLE. 



Turdus Ginginianus, Ind. Orn.'i. 362. Daud.W. 288. (Gracula). 

 Le petit Martin de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 194. 

 Gingi Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. 144. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill orange, strait, a trifle bent at the 

 point, with a slight notch ; above carinated ; nostrils oblong, covered 

 with feathers ; tongue lacerated ; irides dark red ; the lids scaly, 

 covered with dark feathers ; a bare, yellow, wrinkled skin, from the 

 gape, reaching behind the eye, and round it ; feathers of the head 

 sharp-pointed, those in front longer, and may be erected as a crest, 

 colour greenish glossy black ; neck, back, rump, sides, and thighs, 

 grey ; vent, and under wing coverts pale rufous ; upper wing 

 coverts black, glossed with green ; a few next the primaries pale 

 rufous ; quills black, the prime ones rufous at the base ; tail rounded, 

 black, the end rufous, deeper on the outer feathers ; the two middle 

 ones glossed with green ; legs yellow ; hind toe strong, as long as 

 the middle one, which is united to outer at the base. 



The female has the feathers in front shorter, so as not to admit of 

 forming a crest, the wing more white in it, and the quills ash-colour. 



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