170 GRAKLE. 



tinge on the breast, where also the feathers have a brown line down 

 the shaft; wings as the back; the lesser coverts dusky down the 

 middle ; second coverts plain ; quills and tail darker brown, the last 

 even at the end, and the wings reach just beyond the rump ; legs 

 deep blue, stout ; claws crooked, sharp. 



Inhabits Port Jackson, in New South Wales ; has the note of a 

 Thrush. 



28 —BROWN GRAKLE. 



LENGTH sixteen or seventeen inches. Bill stout, one inch and 

 a half long, the upper mandible lead-colour, a little bent, and rather 

 overhangs the under ; nostrils near the base ; irides dark ; head and 

 neck pale brownish grey, darker under the chin ; back, wings, and 

 tail rufous brown ; breast and belly dusky ; lower belly, thighs, and 

 vent pale, or brownish white ; legs yellow brown ; claws hooked. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; it seems to bear affinity with the 

 Crow Genus, but having no reflected bristles on the bill, it may be 

 more properly placed as a Grakle. 



29.— WHITE-VENTED GRAKLE. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill, from point to gape, one inch and 

 a quarter, nostrils oval, near the base of the bill, contiguous to the 

 gape ; above are a few stiff hairs ; the base half of the under mandible 

 yellow, and the gape surrounded with a membranous skin of the 

 same; plumage in general brown, the feathers of the neck, wing- 

 coverts, and tail having a gloss of green ; the tail is rounded, seven 

 inches long, glossed with green on the outer webs; quills pale 



