416 APPENDIX. 



' Werimber,' which is the native name of the Glen AHce tribe for this species, and on his doing 

 so the bird Hew olT the nest. It was in a tree in the thicl<est part of the scrub, and about 

 seventeen feet from the nest, and we could hardly discern the latter, it was so small. The 

 following morning I secured both the female and the eggs. Later on the same day we found 

 another nest of the same species, also with two eggs." 



Collyriocincla boweri. 



BOWER'S SHRIKE-THRUSH. 



Collyriocincla boiveri, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol, X,, p. 244 (1886). 



Adult male. — General culunr above dull lead-grey ; upper nniig-cnverts and iniiermosl secondaries 

 like iJie hack : remainder of the qnills dark brown exlernally inaryined on their outer ivebs ivith dtdl 

 lead-grey, paler towards tlieir tips and increasing in extent toivards tlie inner secoiidaries ; tail-feathers 

 brotvii, strongly waslied with ilull lead-grey on both wehs of t/iecenfnd pair, aiol decreasing in intensity 

 on the outer irebs of the remainder toirards the outermost feather on. either side : foreliead, crown of 

 the head, nape and hind-neck like tlie back : lores dingy n'/iite ; entire under surface and binder 7ving 

 and inider tail-coverts fauni colour, paler cm the throat, richer on the centre oj the lon:er breast and 

 under tail-coverts, the feathers of tits chin, throat aiid fore-neck having lead-grey shaft streaks.- "bill 

 black, legs and feet lead colour ; iris broivn " (Bower). Total length 8 inches, iving 4, fail 3\', bill 

 0-S9, tarsus 105. 



Adult female. — Sinular in plumage to the male. 



Disti'ihutioit. — North-eastern Queensland. 



/"I^HIS very distinct species, of which I have the types now before me, was described by 

 J- Dr. E. P. Ramsay in the " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales," 

 in 1885, from specimens procured by its discoverer, Mr. T. H. Bowyer-Bower, at Peterson's 

 Pocket, about thirty-five miles from Cairns, North-eastern Queensland, on the 12th and 14th 

 December, 1884. It frequents the scrubs and brushes of the Sea View Range, Mount Bellenden 

 Ker, occurs inland as far as Herberton, and is confined to the tropical vegetation of this 

 portion of North-eastern Queensland. Messrs. E. J. Cairn and Kobt. Grant procured a fine 

 series of specimens in 1S88-9 ; examples were also procured at the same time on Mount Bellenden 

 Ker, up to an altitude of four thousand feet, by the late Mr. Kendal Broadbent. Its nearest 

 allies are CoUyi'iociucla vitps^astcy and C. parvida. 



There is but little or no variation in adult specimens. Iiiinialure birds may readily be 

 distinguished by the streak of pale rufous feathers above the lores, and above and below the eye ; 

 the outer webs of the quills are externally edged with pale olive-rufous, and only the feathers on 

 the upper part of the fore-neck have greyish shaft-streaks. Wing tlie same as that of the adult, 

 4 inches. 



Mr. Robt. Grant has given me the following note; — "In i88g we found Bower's Shrike- 

 Thrush in pairs all through the scrubs around Boar Pocket, about thirty miles from Cairns ; 

 also on the Upper Russell River and around Lake I£icham. They were not shy, and would 

 often fiy down from a low branch on to the ground, cjuite close to one, and pick up some stray 

 insect, and return to the same branch again. They were only met with low down in the scrub, 

 generally from ten to twenty feet from the ground. On one occasion in November, 1888, in 

 company with Mr. Cairn at Boar Pocket, I saw one of these birds, and from its actions I knew 

 we were in the vicinity of its nest, which I discovered in a mass of Lawyer vines about three 

 feet from the ground. The nest was an open structure formed of leaves, skeletons of leaves, 

 and lined with wiry rootlets ; it contained a single egg, reddish-brown spotted on a rosy-white 

 ground colour." 



