. Illustrations of ornithology . crrieifa / > MIMETA VIRIDIS, Grakle. PLATE LXI. M. olivaceo-viridis, subtus albida, nigro guttatim striata; alis caudaque nigro-fuscis, illis albido marginatis, hoc apice albch Gracula viridis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. xxviii Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. p. 4-73. Green Grakle, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. iii. p. 168. Mimetis viridis, Kings Survey of the Coasts of Australia, App. vol. ii. p. 415. Mimeta viridis, Fig. £f Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. part i. p. 326. VVe are indebted to Captain P. P. King for the formation of the presentgenus,
. Illustrations of ornithology . crrieifa / > MIMETA VIRIDIS, Grakle. PLATE LXI. M. olivaceo-viridis, subtus albida, nigro guttatim striata; alis caudaque nigro-fuscis, illis albido marginatis, hoc apice albch Gracula viridis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. xxviii Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. p. 4-73. Green Grakle, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. iii. p. 168. Mimetis viridis, Kings Survey of the Coasts of Australia, App. vol. ii. p. 415. Mimeta viridis, Fig. £f Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. part i. p. 326. VVe are indebted to Captain P. P. King for the formation of the presentgenus, founded upon the Gracula viridis, the Green Grakle of modernBritish ornithologists, with two new species discovered by him during hissurvey of the intertropical coasts of Australia, and also for some very ju-dicious remarks upon the nature of these birds, giving the grounds uponwhich his genus is founded. We have thought these remarks worthy ofbeing transcribed : The next bird in the collection (alluding to thebirds collected during his voyages, and descr
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