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These are large birds, and inhabit Australasia 

 and New Guinea : they appear to be divisible into 

 two sections, the first having a distinct keel on the 

 beak, which is produced among the frontal feathers ; 

 the wings are rounded, with the sixth quill longest : 

 the second is without the keel, and the surface is 

 nearly flat ; the wdngs are moderate, and the fourth 

 and fifth quills are longest. 



Sp. J . Cr. chalybeus. 



Paradisea chalybea, Shatjo, v. vii. p. 504. pL 7 1 • — New Guinea. 



Sp. 2. Cr. anaphonesis. 



Cr. cinereo-niger tectricibusque caudce injerioribus remigium rec- 



triciumque apicibus albis. 

 Ashy-black Cracticus with the lower tail-coverts and tips of the 



quills and tail white. 

 Barita anaphonesis. Temm, PI. CoL (Genre Cassican.) 



Inhabits Australasia. Entirely ashy-black, with 

 the under tail-coverts, and the tips of the wings and 

 tail white. 



Sp. 3. Cr. streperus. 



Gracula strepera. ShatVj v. vii. p, 462.— Corvus streperus. 

 Leach, Zool. Misc. v. ii. pi. 86.— New Holland. 



Sp. 4. Cr. tibicen. 



Gracula tibicen. Shaw, v. vii. p. 465. — New Holland. 



Sp. 5. Cr. varius. 



Gracula varia. Shavj, v. vii. p. 464. — New Guinea. 



Sp. 6. Cr. destructor. 



Cr. corpore supra ardosiaco, infrh albida ; capite, occipite, nuchce 

 parte, malisque nigris; lateribus colli lunula alba ; alis nigri- 

 cante-fuscis, remigibus secundariis albo marginatis ; caudd nigra 

 apice albd. 



