The male has a line over the eye, a patch on each side of the neck, a longitudinal stripe on the wing, tips of the secondaries, rump, upper tail-coverts, the basal two-thirds and the tips of the tail, under surface of the shoulder, breast, flanks, abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the remainder of the plumage black with a deep bluish tinge on the head, throat, chest and back, and a green tinge on the primaries and tail; bill yellowish white; irides straw-yellow; feet black.
The female differs in having the forehead, lores and chin white. The young on leaving the nest have the irides black; in other respects they resemble their parents, but are of course far less brilliant in colour.
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size.
GRAUCALUS MELANOPS.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
GRAUCALUS MELANOPS.
Black-faced Graucalus.
Corvus melanops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxiv. no. 1.
Ceblepyris melanops, Temm. Man., p. lxii.
Rollier à masque noir, Le Vaill. Ois. de Parad., pl. 30.
Black-faced Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 116.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 46.