THAMN OPHILIN M. 
Cuacticus Vieill.* 
Bill lengthened, straight, broad at the base, and narrowing towards the tip, which is hooked and 
emarginated ; the culmen broad, advancing on the forehead, rounded, and smooth ; the gape furnished 
with slender long bristles ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and pierced in the substance of the bill. Wings 
long and pointed, with the first three quills graduated, and the fourth and fifth equal and longest. Tail 
lone and rounded. Tarsi rather longer than the middle toe. To as moderate, the lateral ones unequal, 
the outer longest and united at its base ; the claws long, curved, and acute. 
The species of this genus are found in New Guinea and the continent of Australia. 
1. C . cassicus (Bodd.) PI. enl. 628. — Coracias varius Gmel. ; 
Barita Sonneratii Less. Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 781. 
2. C. torquatus (Lath.) Lamb. Icon. ined. iii. 32. — Vanga de- 
structor Temm. PL col. 273., Gould, Syn. B. of Austr. pi. f. 1. 
(head). 
3. C. melanoleucus (Lath.) Vieill. Lamb. Icon. ined. ii. 33. 
4. C. nigrogularis (Gould), Proc. Z. S. 1830. 143., Gould, Syn. 
Birds of Australia, pi. f. 2. (head). — Cracticus varius Vigors $ 
Horsf. 
5. C. cinereus (Gould), Proc. Z. S. 1836. 143., Syn. B. of Austr. 
pi. (head). 
6. C. argenteus Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1840. 126. 
7. C. gymnocephalus (Temm.) PI. col. 572. — Type of Pityriasis 
Lesson (1837). 
* Established by Vieillot ( Analyse , p. 37.) in 1816. Cuvier in 1817 proposed Barita for these birds. It embraces Pityriasis of M. 
Lesson (1837). 
August, 1845. 
