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black, half white : the others white on the outer 

 margins : the quills the same : tail two inches and a 

 half long, even, fringed at the tip with white : at the 

 middle of the back a very large tuft of downy white 

 feathers, standing up like a puff: legs black. The 

 supposed opposite sex has the black of a dusky hue ; 

 the pufF-like tuft ash-coloured, the under parts dirty 

 white. 



GENUS LXXX.— GRAUCALUS. Cuvier. 



Rostrum crassum, subcom- 

 pressunijbasi plumigerum, 

 apice deflexum ; mandi- 

 hula superior carinata, 

 arcuata ; iriferior subtus 

 plana. 



Beak thick, somewhat com- 

 pressed, its base clothed 

 with feathers, its tip de- 

 flected ; the upper man- 

 dible carinated, bent; the 

 lower plane. 



CoRACiNA ^«r5. Vieillot. — Ceblepyris ^«r,y. Temm. 



The Graucali appear to be confined to the Indian 

 Archipelago, and to the extensive continent of Aus- 

 tralasia. 



Sp, 1. Gr. papuensis, 



Corvus papuensis. Shaw, v. vii. p. 354. — New Guinea. 



Sp. 2. Gr. NovjB Guinea. 



Corvus Novee Guineae. Shavoy v. vii. p. 354, — New Guinea. 

 Sp. 3. Gr. melanops. 



Gr. cinereus facie juguloque nigris / rectricibus lateralibus apice 

 nigris. 



Cinereous Graucalus with the face and jugulum black j the lateral 

 tail-feathers black at the tip. 



Corvus melanops. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. xxiv. — Rollier a masque 

 noir. Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. Ois. de Paradis, &c. pi. 30. — 

 Black-faced Crow.— Lath. Gen. Si^yi. Sup. ii. \\6. 



