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under parts of the body, as well as the inner wing- 

 coverts, are white, closely bounded by narrow trans- 

 verse lines of a deep black colour : the space between 

 the beak and eye is also black: the wings are mo- 

 derately long and pointed : the quills are black, with 

 the exterior half of the outer webs cinereous, and 

 margined by a narrow line of whitish : the first quill 

 is half as long as the second, which is again shorter 

 than the third, and this last is very nearly as long 

 as the fourth : the tail is black and obsoletely rounded, 

 the two middle feathers cinereous at their base. 



Sp. 7. Gr? tricolor. 



Gr ? nitide nigerj alhus infra; crisso tegminibusque swperioribvs 

 cinereis ; tectrkihus rectriciumque apicibus alhis. 



Glossy black Graucalus? beneath white 3 with the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts cinereous ; the wing-corerts and tips of the 

 tail-feathers white. 



Ceblepyris tricolor. Zool. Jour. {Swain.) v. i. p. 407. 



Inhabits New Holland. Size rather larger than 

 a Lark : the upper plumage, from the head to the 

 middle of the back, is deep black, glossed with a 

 metallic lustre of dull greenish- blue : the lower parts 

 of the back, as well as the rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, are pale cinereous : the spiny-shafts of the 

 feathers in these parts are very weak : the under 

 plumage, with the sides of the neck and ear-feathers, 

 is pure w^hite : all the lesser and part of the greater 

 wing-coverts are also white ; as well as the margins 

 of the scapulars, and part of the greater quills : wings 

 long and pointed; the first quill very short, the 

 second scarcely shorter than the third, but longer 

 than the fourth : the tail black and rather lengthened, 



