GRAKLE. 155 



Inhabits India, and common about Calcutta, throughout the 

 year ; is the Gosalic of the Bengalese, and known at Hindustan by 

 the name of Abluka; also called by some Abluka-mina;* generally 

 seen in pairs ; lives chiefly on insects ; usually found in pastures 

 frequented by cows, on which account, in order to distinguish it from 

 the Salic,f it has Go (that is, Cow) prefixed to its name. The Contra, 

 or Condra of Bengal, is not this, but a different bird, being applied 

 by the natives to the Jocose Shrike. 



I am indebted, for the above account, to Dr. Buchanan. This 

 bird has been mentioned by some, as a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, but, according to M. Levaillant, it belongs only to Bengal, 

 as he never met with it at the Cape. 



A. — Among the Drawings of Sir J. Anstruther is a fine Variety, 

 chiefly white ; top of the head black and white, in streaks ; chin and 

 throat dotted with white ; quills black ; greater part of the tail 

 feathers black, the rest white ; on the sides of the vent some black 

 crescents; bill and legs yellow. In another similar Variety, nearly 

 the whole of the plumage was white. 



The Gosalic Grakle is mentioned as a bird of Java, where it is 

 called Jallak, and Jallak-ruring. 



10.— JAVAN GRAKLE. 



Pastor tricolor, Lin. Trans, xii'i. p. 155. Horsfield. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill and legs yellow ; the 

 plumage chiefly white ; the quills and tail feathers black, the last 

 white at the tips; on the back a blackish grey band. 



Inhabits Java; known by the name of Jallak-awu. 



* In one of General Hardwicke's Drawings called Abulfca or Ablka ; in another named 

 Sergut. f The Paradise, Crested, and Gingi Grakles, go by this name. 



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