All the upper surface leaden grey, becoming much darker on the forehead and lores; wings black; secondaries margined with grey and tipped with white; basal half of the inner webs of the primaries white, of the outer webs grey; the remainder of their length black, slightly tipped with white; tail black, margined with grey and largely tipped with white; all the under surface greyish brown; under tail-coverts white; irides orange; bill and feet black.
The figure represents a male of the natural size.
GYMNORHINA TIBICEN: G. R. Gray.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
GYMNORHINA TIBICEN.
Piping Crow-Shrike.
Coracias Tibicen, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp., xxvii.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 405.
Barita Tibicen, Temm. Man., part i. p. li.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 345.
Piping Roller, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 86. no. 23.
Cracticus Tibicen, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 260.—Gould, Syn, Birds of Australia, Part I.
Gymnorhina Tibicen, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit. p. 50.