154 GRAKLE. 



I observed some males, in which the wings had a patch of white, 

 instead of rufous, and the ends of the tail feathers white, which in 

 others are rufous ; legs orange. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel ; brought to Calcutta from the 

 hilly countries near Monghy ; lives upon trees ; is the Ram Salic of 

 the Bengalese, as Dr. Buchanan informs me ; also, that the Paradise 

 and Crested Grakles are called, by the Hindoos, Salic or Saru, by 

 others Serghet ; and at Futtehghur, Chehey. 



9— GOSALIC GRAKLE. 



Sturnus Capensis, Ind. Orn. i. 322. Lin. i. 290. Gm. Lin. i. 802. Bris.ii. 446. fr.ltl: 



3. Id. 8vo.i. 282. 

 Sturnus Contra, Ind. Orn. i. 322. 2. A. Lin. i. 290. Gm. Lin. i. 803. 

 Pastor Jalla, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 155. 



Icterus Bengalensis, Bris.'n. 94. Id. Sup. 94. Id. 8vo. i. 181. 

 Etourneau pie, Buf.m. 191. PL enl. 280. Daud. ii. 303. 

 Black and white Indian Starling, Edw. pi. 187. 

 Cape Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 5. 

 Contra Stare, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 5. A. Albin. iii. pi. 21. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and four-tenths, flattened 

 towards the point, and with a slight notch ; nostrils about the middle 

 of the bill, the base half of which is orange-coloured, the rest white; 

 tongue cleft, black, and about half the length of the bill ; orbits, 

 and a small space round the eye, bare, and orange-coloured, pointed 

 before and behind ; irides black, surrounded with a pale ring ; the 

 feathers of the head lance-shaped ; from the nostrils a large patch of 

 white, broad behind the eye, and narrowing in a point to the nape ; 

 the rump, margin of the wing, to the shoulders, and all beneath the 

 breast white, inclining on the latter to pale ash-colour ; the rest of 

 the bird black ; the two exterior tail feathers are shorter than the 

 others, and have the outer edges white ; legs brownish ; hind toe very 

 strong ; claws black-brown, hooked, and sharp. 



The female scarcely differs from the male. 



