PASSEEES. 
Earn. CAMPOPHAGID^. 
Bill generally stout, moderately hooked and moderately notched ; generally thick at the base, 
rather widened ; the nostrils hidden. Wings in most species lengthened, never short. 
Shrike-like birds of soft plumage ; the feathers of the lower back and rump with stiffened 
shafts. {Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iv. p. 7.) 
Genus GEAUCALUS. 
Bill stout, massive, wide at base ; culmen keeled and much decurved, with the tip notched 
distinctly. Nostrils covered with setaceous feathers; rictal bristles moderate; the lores bristly. 
Head massive. Wings long ; the 4th quill the longest, and the 1st less than half the length of 
the 4th. Tail tolerably long, and slightly graduated at the exterior. Tarsus longer than the 
middle toe. Feet strong, claws curved and strong. 
GEAUCALUS MACIL 
(THE LAEGE INDIAN CUCKOO-SHEIKE.) 
Graucalus macii. Lesson, Traite, p. 349 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 190 (1849) ; 
Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 173; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 417 (1862); 
Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 368; Hume, Nests and Eggs,i. p. 181 (1873); Walden, Ibis, 1873, 
p. 310 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 204 ; Adam, t. c. p. 400 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, 
p. 94; Butler, t. c. p. 464; Blyth & Walden, B. Burm. p. 123 (1875); Armstrong! 
Str. Feath. 1876, p. 316 ; Hume, ibid. 1877, p. 29; Fairbank, t.c. p. 400; Hume & 
Davison, ibid. 1878, p. 210; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iv. p. 34 (1879). 
Graucalus nipalensis, Hodgs. Ind. Eev. i. p. 327. 
Campephaga macei (Less.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 (1845) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 123 
(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 128. 
Graucalus layardi, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 368; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 117; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 
1872, p. 437 ; Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 311; Hume, Stray Feath. 1873, p. 435; Legge, 
Ibis, 1875, p. 287. 
Mace s Caterpillar-catcher, Kelaart ; The Large Caterpillar-catcher. Kasya, Hind. ; Kahasi, 
Beng. ; Pedda akurai, Tel., lit. “ Large File-bird.” 
Adult male and female. Length 10-1 to 10'4 inches ; wing 5-8 to 6-05 ; tail 4-3 ; tarsus 1-0 to 1-1 ; mid toe 0-85, 
claw (straight) 0 39 ; hind toe 0'5, claw (straight) 0'35; bill to gape 1'3 to 1’4. These measurements are from 
a good series of Ceylonese examples, in which the females average the larger of the sexes. 
Iris reddish brown, variable in intensity of colour; bill blaeli; ; legs and feet black, edges of tarsal scales whitish. 
Male. Above the nostril, lores, round the eye, and the gape and point of chin jet-black, passing into blackish on the 
ear-coverts. The feathers of the lores are bristly. Above slate-grey (individuals varying in depth of colour), paler 
on the forehead and rump, which latter part is indistinctly barred with white ; head and back in some examples 
with dark shafts ; wing-coverts duskier than the back and with dark shafts ; wings and tail black, the former 
