Genus— M ETAGRAUCALUS. 
Metagraucalus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 59, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Type (by original designation) ... ... Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine. 
The diagnosis reads : “ Differs from Edolisoma Jacquinot et Pucheran in its 
stronger bill, stronger legs and feet, different wing formation, and entirely 
different coloration.” 
The bill is longer and thinner than in any of the preceding genera, the 
rictal bristles insignificant, the frontal feathers covering the nostrils as usual. 
The wing has the first primary very short and narrow, about half the 
length of the second, which exceeds the sixth in length ; the third and fourth 
are longest and about equal but the fifth is only a little less. The tail has 
broad feathers, square and about two -thirds the length of the wing. 
The feet are more slender, the tarsus booted, only a little longer than the 
culmen, the toes formed as in the preceding but more delicate. 
Coloration : Sexes entirely different. The male is dark grey throughout, 
the wings and tail black, some of the feathers edged with grey. 
The female is brownish-grey above with the rump indistinctly barred, 
the secondaries edged with reddish ; the under-surface huffish to greyish- 
white irregularly and sometimes indistinctly barred with narrow black cross- 
bars. Immature like female. 
Why this species was ever placed in Edolisoma is not easily understood, 
as the male of the type species ( marescoti ) is black throughout, while the female 
is uniform brownish-red above and pale buffish-yellow below. The bill is of a 
different shape, the wing is rounded, the first primary longer, the others shorter, 
the legs differ, the tail is not like, etc., etc. 
VOL. IX. 
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