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CMitirely black, the others broadly tipped with white and having:; 

 also a largo basal spot of white on the outer web of some of the 

 feathers ; wing-coverts pure white, most of them black at the base ; 

 the bastard wing black ; the greater coverts black, with most of the 

 outer webs white ; primarj'-coverts black on the inner, pure white 

 on the outer web ; quills black, with a large spot of white near the 

 base of the outer web of the primaries ; the secondaries black 

 externally, white on the inner web, three of the inner ones entirely 

 pui'c white, forming a longitudinal streak down the wing ; bill 

 lead-colour at base, black at the tip ; feet black ; iris brown. 

 Total length 13 inches, culraen 1-9, wing 7'1, tail 5-9, tarsus 1-45. 



OI'S. The amount of black on the inner secondaries varies much, 

 sometimes the shaft only being black, while in other specimens the 

 black forms a large longitudinal central patch. 



Female. Like the male in coloration. 



Young, The young birds differ from the adult in having the black 

 parts of the plumage replaced by brown feathers, with dark central 

 streaks and pale margins ; the chin, throat, and chest pale sandy, 

 each feather with two narrow (one of them subterminal) trans- 

 verse brown bars ; the white collar round the hind neck often 

 merely indicated by a slight greyish shade. 



Hah. Southern and Eastern Australia, as high as Rockingham 

 Bay, Gulf of Carpentaria. 



a. Ad. St. 

 h, c. Juv. st. 



d. Juv. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Juv. sk. 

 (/. Juv. sk. 

 h. Juv. sk. 



i. Ad. sk. 



k, I. Ad. sk. 

 m. Ad. sk. 

 M. Ad. sk. 

 o. S juv. sk. 



2). (5 ad. sk. 



q. 2 .iuv. sk. 

 ?•. Ad. sk. 

 s. Juv. St. 



New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



Interior of S. Australia. 



Shot to the north of the 

 Barrier Range, between 

 31° and 29° S. lat. 



Queensland (^CocTierell). 



Queensland. 



Queensland. 



Cape Upstart. 



Burnett River, Queens- 

 land, August 1870. 



Wide Bay, Queensland, 

 October 1867. 



Lake Elphinstone. 



Lake Elphinstone. 



Tasmania. 



J. Gould, Esq. [C.l. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 J. Goidd, Esq. [C.]. 

 R. Brown, Esq. [C.]. 

 Capt. Sturt [P.]. 

 Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Australian Museum [P.]. 



Australian Museum [P.]- 



Godeffroy Museum. 



Purchased. 



Ronald Gunu, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Cracticus picatus. 



Cractieus picatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 40 ; id. B. Austr. fol. ii. 

 pi. 50 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 367 ; Reich. Viig. NeuhoU. p. 236 ; Gould, 

 Haiidh. B. Austr. i. p. 181 ; Gray, Hmk-l. B. i. p. 386, no. 5849 ; 

 Di(j(]les,Orn. Austr. pi. ; Ramsay, P)-oc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. p. 180. 



This bird is like C. nigrigularis in colouring, but smaller in size. 



