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INDIAN GRAKLE. 



Gracula rellgiosa. G. nigro-molacea, macula alarum alba, fascia 



occipitis nuda Jlava. Lin. Syst, Nat, 

 Violet-black Grakle, with white * spot on the wings, and a 



naked yellow occipital band, 

 Sturnus Indicus. Bont. Jav. 

 Bontius's Indian Stare. Will, orn. 

 Minor or Mino. Edwards. pL 17' 

 Le Mainate. Buff. ois. 

 Mainate des Indes orientales. Bl, EnL 268, 

 Minor Grakle. Lath. syn. 



Of this remarkable species there are two varie* 

 ties or races, exactly resembling each other in 

 every respect except in size. Both have been 

 well described by Edwards, in his usual plain and 

 unadorned style. " The Greater Minor," says he, 



for bigness equals a Jackdaw or Magpye; the 

 lesser hardly exceeds a Blackbird, so. that the one 

 is at least twice as big as the other: they have 

 middle-sized heads, pretty plump round bodies, 

 and short tails: the legs of a middling length: the 

 bill is pretty thick at the basis, from upper to 

 under side, but something compressed sideways; 

 of a red colour towards the head, and a yellow 

 point in the lesser bird, and all over yellow in the 

 greater: the bill ends in a point not very suddenly 

 or sharp: the feathers on each side point into the 

 bill as far as the nostrils: the eyes are hazel- 

 coloured in both: on the hinder part of the head 

 in both are two little flaps of yellow skin in the 

 form of crescents w^ith the points upwards, one 



