100 . LANIID^. 



the flanks, sides of breast, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and edge 

 of wing. 



Hah. North Australia. 



a. Jut. sk. N.W. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. (Type 



of species.) 



6. Cracticus destructor*. 



Vauga destructor, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. lix ; Gould, Syn, B. Austr. 



part 1. 

 Barita destructor, Temm. PI. Col. 273. 

 Bulestes torquatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 66. 

 Cracticus torquatus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 300 ; Bb/th, Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 105 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 367 ; Gould, Handh. B. Austr. 



i. p. 184 ; Schl Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 129 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 386, no. 5853 ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 583 ; id. Proc. Linn. 



Sac. N. S. W. ii. p. 180. 

 Cracticus destructor, Gould, B. Austr. fol. ii. pi. 52 ; Meichenb. Vog. 



Neuholl. p. 236. 



Adult male. Similar to C. leucopterus, but differing from it in the 

 following points : — The general colour above, including the scapu- 

 lars and lesser wing-coverts, is dull brownish ashy grey, varied 

 with darker brown streaks to the centres of the feathers ; thighs 

 dull brown ; quills dark brown ; three of the inner secondaries 

 narrowly edged on the outer and inner web with white, forming a 

 longitudinal bar down the wing ; this bar is much smaller than 

 that on the wings of C. leucopterus, even in young birds of the 

 latter ; instead of the conspicuous scapular patch of C. leucoptenxs 

 only a few of the scapular feathers in C. destructor are patched with 

 wnitish, the white being invisible when the wings are folded ; biU 

 bluish lead-colour at the base, passing into black on the tip ; feet 

 blackish lead-colour ; iris very dark reddish brown {Goidd). 



Female, llather browner than the male, and generally of a more 

 dingy appearance ; body below more uniformly tinged with pale 

 brownish grey on the sides of breast ; flanks pale brownish grey. 



Young. Brown ; the head uniform with the back ; the feathers 

 of the upper parts mesially streaked with ochraceous, much broader 

 on the forehead and the ear-coverts ; sides of the neck buffy white, 

 with broad brown centres ; wings brown, the coverts edged with 

 pale ochraceous, the median series broadly streaked and tipped with 

 white ; the inner secondaries broadly edged with creamy buff; 

 upper tail-coverts creamy buff, mottled and tipped with brown ; 

 tail dark brown, tipped with buff on the inner web ; lores and 

 cheeks dull white ; chin, throat, and under tail-coverts white ; re- 

 mainder of the under surface of the body more or less ochraceous, 

 especially on the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; every one of 

 the feathers of the breast and flanks has several faint brownish 

 cross bars. 



* The name torquatus, of Latham, founded on his " Clouded Shrike " 

 (Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 73), has been generally employed for this species. The 

 original description, however, appears insufficient for recognition. 



