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Differs from C. t. toripMta.s iu being darker above auJ smaller in the wing : 

 133 — 13S mm.: typical, 142 — lo4 mm. 

 Type : Victoria, No. 5066. 

 Range : Victoria. 



lUS'JA. Cracticus torquatus ethelae snbsp. n. 



Southern Butcher Bird. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 658 (pars). 



Uiifers from C*. t. torquatuH iu being much lighter above. 



Type : Eyre's Peninsula, South Australia, No. 9679. 



Range : South Australia. 



1040. Cracticus torquatus cinereus. 



Vaiiga chierea Gould, Syiiiiiin. Binh Anxfr. pt. i. pi. ii. 1837 ; Tasmania. 



Grey Butcher Bird. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 659. 

 Range : Tasmania. 



1041. Cracticus torquatus leucopterus. 



Crfietirux lencnpterim Gould, Birds Aimlr. Intind. vol. i. p. .v.vxv. 1848 ; West Australia. 



White-winged Butcher Bird. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 656. 

 Range : West Australia. 



1042. Cracticus torquatus argenteus. 



Cracticus argetileus Gould, I'roc. Zuol. &uc. {Lund.) 1840. p. 12lj (1841) : North-West Coast of Australia. 



SUver-backed Butcher Bird. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 657. 

 Range : North- West Australia. 



1043. Cracticus mentalis. 



Crcuticus iiieiilolix Salvador! and D'Albertis, Ann. J/«s, i'/c. IJenoc. vol. vii. p. 824. 1875 : South- 

 Easteru New Guinea. 



Black-backed Batcher Bird. 



Range : (Queensland ((Jape York), New Guinea. 



Genus PALCUITCULUS. 



Falctmcidiis Vieillot, Analyse nouv. OriiHIi. p. 40. 181IJ. 



Type (by mouotypy) : F. J'rontatus (Latham). 



1"44. Falcunculus frontatus frontatus. 



Lanlus frontatus Latham, Indcc Ornith. >inppl. p. .wiii. 1801 : New South Wales. 



Synonym : 

 ? Falcunculus fldviijulus Gould, Synups. Birds Au.^lr. pt. iv. App. p. 2. 1838. 



Yellow-bellied Shrike Tit. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 660 (pars). 



Range : New South Wales. 



