156 GRAKLE. 



11.— NEW-HOLLAND GRAKLE. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill orange ; from the gape a bare 

 yellowish skin, passing through the eye and behind, where it is 

 sprinkled with minute black feathers ; head and chin black; neck 

 and body slate-colour; wings glossy black ; base of the greater quills 

 rufous above, and white beneath ; under wing coverts rufous ; belly 

 paler than the upper parts ; towards the vent rufous ; legs stout, and 

 oran ge-col ou red . 



Inhabits New-Holland ; there called Gattua Maino. — Probably 

 a Variety of the Gingi, or Gosalic Grakle. 



12— SURINAGUR GRAKLE. 



BILL yellow, pretty long ; on the forehead a rounded tuft of 

 black soft feathers, standing upright, as in the Crested Grakle ; those 

 of the crown black, and much elongated, so as to form a sort of crest, 

 hanging over the nape behind ; general colour of the plumage pale 

 greenish grey ; between the bill and eye downy, and behind the 

 latter a naked, bare, blue space; wing coverts and tail blue; the 

 rest of the wing blue-black ; legs long, pale greenish yellow ; claws 

 black, long, and hooked ; the quills, when closed, reach to the 

 middle of the tail. 



Inhabits the internal parts of India, being found in the snowy 

 mountains of Surinagur : called, in Persia, Gulgully. In the 

 drawings of the late Sir J. Anstruther, it is said to be three-eighths 

 of the weight of a Sare, which, supposing that to be equal to two 

 pounds of our weight, makes the bird to be twelve ounces ; and the 

 drawing being nine inches long, and called half the real length, 

 we may conclude that of the bird to be eighteen inches. 



