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disposition, resembling in its manner the European 

 Magpie. 



BARE-NECKED GRAKLE. 



Gracula nudicollis. G. nigra, capite sericeo, colli lateribus nudis 



rubris, alis griseo-cceruleis. 

 Black Grakle, with silky head^ sides of the neck naked and red, 



and blue-grey wings. 

 Corvus nudus. C niger, pUeo ex mollioribus plumis contexto, 



collo rarius plumis fecto. Lin. Gmel, 

 Bare-Necked Crow. Lath. syn. 



Gracula nuda. G. nigra, capite tomentoso sericeo, postice et 

 lateribus subcalvo, remigibus extus oblique ccerulescentibus. Lath, 

 ind. orn, 



Le Colnud de Cayenne. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 6og. 

 Le Col nil. Levaill. ois, nouv. et rares de VAmerique ^ des 

 Indes. pL 45. 46. 



This bird is by Mr. Latbam, in his Synopsis, 

 considered as a species of Corvus, and by Monsr. 

 Levaillant as an Ampelis. Its size is rather larger 

 than that of a Jackdaw, and its colour black, ac- 

 companied by a gloss of blue, and the edges of the 

 wing-coverts and quill-feathers are blue-grey: the 

 feathers in front of the head and beneath the bill 

 resemble black velvet: the great particularity of 

 the bird consists in the naked appearance of the 

 sides of tne neck, the skin of which is of a red 

 colour, and merely exhibits a few slight rudiments 

 of minute plumes scattered over the skin: the bill 

 and legs are black ; the eyes of a reddish brown ; 

 and beneath each is a naked square spot of a 



