GRAKLE. 



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19._L0NG-BILLED GRAKLE. 



Gracula longirostra, Ind. Orn. i. 193. Gm. Lin. i. 398. Pall. Spic. 6. t. 2. f. 2. 



Borowsck, ii. 119. Dattd. ii. 290. Shaw's Zool. vii. 466. 

 Long-billed Grakle, Ge?i. >9y?i. ii. 466. 



LESS than the Bee-Eater ; length nearly nine inches. Bill 

 thirteen lines long, and a little bent ; irides dusky ; nostrils distant 

 from the base, and covered with a membrane ; above the angles of 

 the mouth two or three bristles ; tongue plain, deeply bifid at the 

 end, and lacerated on the edges ; head and neck black ; back brown, 

 towards the rump ferruginous ; under parts of the bird dirty yellow ; 

 the sides under the wings undulated with black lines ; on each side 

 of the neck a naked wrinkled band, beginning at the ears, passing 

 lengthwise on the neck, and almost covered by the adjacent fea- 

 thers ; wings soot-colour, inclining more to brown towards the 

 shoulders ; prime quills and part of the shafts white at the base, 

 forming an oblique bar ; on the second quills no white ; tail cunei- 

 form, black, tipped obliquely with white at the end, most white on 

 the outer feather, which is black only one third from the base ; legs 

 long, robust, and black. 



Inhabits South America and Surinam. We owe the above ac- 

 count to Dr. Pallas, who seems to be the only one who has seen 

 the bird. 



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