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whole of the neck, and all beneath white, in some parts inclining to 

 blue ; back and wing coverts fine pale blue ; across the latter a trace 

 of white ; quills dusky, edged with pale rust-colour ; tail three 

 inches long, bluish ash-colour, some of the outer feathers inclining 

 to pale grey near the ends ; legs Ion gish, scaly, pale yellow; claws 

 dusky and stout. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — General Davies. 



26— PIED GRAKLE. 



Gracula picata, Ind. Om. Sup. xxix. 

 Pied Grakle, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 130. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill yellow, stout at the base, a 

 trifle bending ; forehead, chin, and throat white, with a trace of the 

 same from the nape, on each side of the neck, to the bottom ; the 

 rest of the head and neck black, coming forwards in a bar on the 

 breast ; back, second quills, outer edge of the wing, and prime 

 quills black, tinged with blue, in some lights; the rest of the feathers on 

 the wing white, appearing as two white bars, connected in the middle; 

 beneath, from the breast, white ; tail white, even at the end, near 

 which is a bar of black ; legs dull slate-colour. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; called there Murregan. 



27— CINEREOUS GRAKLE. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill stout, bent towards the tip, with 

 a minute notch, colour dusky ; irides brown : plumage above pale 

 brown ; crown of the head darkest, each feather marked with a dark 

 line down the shaft ; under parts, from the chin, white, with a dusky 



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