14. FALcuNcrLrs. 173 



1. Falcunciilus frontatus. 



Frontal Shrike, Lath. Gun. Sijn. Snppl. p. 75, pi. 122. 



Lanius frontatus, Lath. Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. xviii. ; Teinm. PI. Col. 



77 ; S/iciw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 312. 

 Falcunciilus frontatus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 40; id. Gal. des Ois. i. 



pi. 138 ; Viq. Sj- Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 212 ; Sivains. Class. 



^. ii. p. 226; Lewik, B. N. 8. Wales, pi. 26 (1838); Steph. in 



S/iaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 149, pi. 50 ; Gould, B. Austr. folio, pi. 79 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. pi. 71, p. 293; Bp. Consp. i. p. 3G5; Gotdd, 



Hnndh. B. Austr. i. p. 228 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 387, no. 5857 ; 



Bamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. ii. p. 181. 

 Falcunculus flavig-ulus, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 144. 

 Falcunciilus gouldi, Cab. 3Ius. Hein. i. p. 66; Bp. Consp. i. p. 365. 



Adult male. General colour above greenish yellow, more or less 

 tinged with grey ; wing-coverts and quills dark grey, the outer 

 web rather broadly margined with white, so that the wing when 

 folded looks rather whitish ; upper tail-coverts yellow, tinged 

 with greenish ; tail-feathers grey, with large white tips, the white 

 increasing towards the outer pairs ; forehead, sides of the head 

 above the eyes, and occiput white ; the feathers of the crown of the 

 head deep black, forming an erectile crest; a broad black stripe 

 runs from the outer edge of the eye over the ear, and ends a little 

 further down towards the wing ; the deep-black throat and fore 

 neck are divided from the black stripe just mentioned by a broad 

 white stripe coming down from the maudibula, the lines of demar- 

 cation being very strongly marked ; the whole under surface of 

 the body bright yellow, the breast shining yellow ; axillaries light 

 grey ; under wing-coverts white like the margin of the inner web 

 of the quills, the under surface of which is grey ; bill black ; feet 

 bluish black. 



(S . Total length 7 inches, culmcn 0-7o, wing 3-7, tail 3-4, tarsus 

 0-85. 



2 . Totallength 6-3 inches, culmen 0-7,wing 3-4, tail 3, tarsus 0-75. 



T\xG female differs from the adult male simply in having the general 

 colour above a little darker, more olive-coloured ; the throat and fore 

 neck are grey washed with yellow. 



The young bird is more like the female; but the yellow colour is 

 not so brilliant. 



Hah. South Australia, extending to New South Wales and along 

 the east coast to the AYide-Bay district. 



a. S ad. St. S. Australia. Purchased. 



i. [ 2 1 ad. sk. S. Austraha. W. Cunningham, Esq. [P.]. 



c. [ $ J ad. sk. S. Australia. Purchased. 



d,e. cJ 2 ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



fjU- [ cJ 5 ] ad. sk. S. Australia. Goidd Collection. 



h. ^ ad. sk. Brisbane, Queensland F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 

 {J. T. Coclierell). Esqrs. [P.]. 



