Genus— CRACTICUS. 
Cractictjs Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., 
p. 37, Apl. 14th, 1816. Type (by “ Cassican — Calybe Buff = 
monotypy) Ramphastus cassicus Boddaert. 
Barita Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, Vol. I., 
p. 340, “ 1817,” Dec. 7th, 1816. Type 
(by subsequent designation Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 93, 1883) R. cassicus Boddaert. 
Smaller Cracticine birds with stout hooked bills, hook descending vertically, 
long wings, long rounded tail and short stout legs. The bill is similar to that 
of Melloria already described in detail, but is proportionately stouter. 
The wing formula differs in that the fourth and fifth primaries are subequal 
and longest, the third a little shorter but longer than the sixth, the second 
being equal to the seventh, and the first primary half the length of the third 
but less than the secondaries. 
The tail is long and rounded. 
The legs are short and stout, the anterior portion of the tarsus showing 
half a dozen regular scutes, though sometimes these show an inclination to 
fusion, the claws stouter than in the preceding genus. 
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