CRACTICUS HYPOLEUCUS, Gould. 
Fig. 1. 
Mas. Cract. nucha, dor so, tectricibus caudcE, crisso, rectricibusque caudce ad basin, albis, reliquis partibus 
7iigris ; rostro ad basin plumbeo in nigrum transeunte ; pedibus nigris. 
Long. tot. unc. ; rostri, 2; alcB, 9f ; caudcB, 5|; tarsi, 2. 
Crown of the head, cheeks, throat, all the under surface, scapularies, primaries and tips of the tail 
jet black ; nape of the neck, back, upper and under tail-coverts, and base of the tail-feathers white ; 
bill dark lead colour at the base, passing into black at the tip ; legs black. 
Cracticus hypoleucus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part IV., 1836. 
Remark. May at all times be distinguished from Cracticus Tibicen by its smaller size and by the 
back being wholly white. 
Habitat. Van Diemen's Land. 
CRACTICUS TIBICEN, Fieill. 
Fig. 2. 
Mas. Crac. niger, nucha, tectricibus alarum, dorso imo, uropygio, crisso, catideeque basi albis ; rostro 
ad basin plumbeo in nigrum transeunte ; pedibus nigris. 
Long. tot. 16^ unc; rostri, 2§; ala, 10| ; caudcB, 6^; tarsi, 2f. 
Male. Crown of the head, cheeks, throat, back, all the under surface, scapularies, secondaries, 
primaries and tips of the tail-feathers black ; nape of the neck, upper and under tail-coverts, and base 
of the tail-feathers white ; bill lead colour at the base, passing into black at the tip ; legs black. 
Syn. Coracias Tibicen, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp., xxvii. — Shaw, Zool., vol. vii. p. 405. 
Barita Tibicen, Teram. Man., part i. p. li. 
Piping Roller, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 86. No. 23. 
Cracticus Tibicen, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 260. 
Habitat. Australia : locality. New South Wales, whence it does not appear to migrate. 
