LANIID^. 



Inhabits New Holland. Size of a Jay: beak 

 stout and black : tongue rounded at tlie end : face 

 and throat black : the plumage on the upper parts is 

 bluish ash-colour, for the most part ; beneath paler : 

 quills blackish, with pale edges : tail six inches and 

 a half long, and dusky-brown, all but the two middle 

 ^ feathers tipped with white : legs dusky-blue. Called 

 Kai-a-lora, The female is said by Temminck to want 

 the black patch on the face and throat, having, in 

 lieu thereof, a broad black band, which terminates a 

 little behind the eyes. 



Sp. 4. Gr. fimbriatus. 



Gr. ardosiaco-niger capite colloque antice nigris aiit cinereis; alls 

 cauddque ceneo -nigris ; rectrice exteriore iitrinqae apice maculd 

 cinered* 



Slaty-black Graucalus with the head and neck in front black and 

 ashy ; the wings and tail brassy-black ; the outer feather of 

 the latter on each side with an ash-coloured spot at its tip. 



Ceblepyris fimbriatus. Temm, PL Col. 249. 250. 



Inhabits Java, Banda, and Sumatra. Length 

 seven inches and a half: the adult male has the head 

 and the fore-part of the neck nearly black : the rest 

 of the neck, the back, scapulars, and under parts, of 

 a slaty- black : the wings and tail bronzed-black ; the 

 outer feather on each side of the last with an ashy 

 spot at its tip : the beak and legs black. The adult 

 female has the top of the head, the nape, the back, 

 and the wings, deep ash : the feathers of the wings 

 inclining to dusky, and edged with cinereous : the 

 cheeks and the chief of the under parts are striped 

 with white, dusky, and ash-coloured zigzags : the 

 tail, with the exception of the two middle feathers, 



