160 GRAKLE. 



15— YELLOW-FACED GRAKLE. 



Gracula icterops, Ind. Om. i. 193. Daud. ii. 290. Shaw's Zool. vii. 472. 

 Yellow-faced Grakle, Gen. Syn. Sup. 91. 



BILL compressed ; nostrils oval ; round the eye bare of feathers, 

 covered only with a fine yellow, wrinkled skin ; head, neck, back, 

 wings, and tail black ; wing coverts crossed with a white line ; neck 

 black ; breast, belly, and vent white ; legs yellow, and very scaly. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



16— BARE-NECKED GRAKLE. 



Gracula nuda, Ind. Orn.'t. 190. Gin. Lin. i. 371. 



- nudicollis, Shaw's Zool. vii. 463. 

 Colnud de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 82. PI. enl. 609. Levail. Am. et Ind. i. 138. pi. 45. 



male. 46. female. 

 Coracina, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxii. 

 Bare-necked Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 382. Id. Sup. p. 79. 



SIZE of a Jackdaw. Bill dusky blue, very broad at the base • 

 the head covered with short, velvet-like feathers, and black ; these are 

 very sparingly furnished on the fore part of the neck, and at the 

 back, but the sides are almost bare, only here and there feathery ; 

 beneath the eye a square, naked, yellow space; the rest of the 

 plumage as in other birds, and black ; the second wing coverts and 

 quills blue-grey on the outer webs ; the wings reach nearly to the 

 middle of the tail ; outer and middle toes united at the base. 



The female is smaller, and has the yellow skin under the eye, and 

 bare sides of the neck, of smaller dimensions ; general colour of the 

 plumage dusky brown, or deep lead-colour, instead of black. — 



