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food ; but colcoptcra and other insects are not rejected. The 

 more gaily-attired species, such as P. guttmalis, P. glaucura, 

 P. welanura, and P.pectoralis, resort to the flowering Acacice, 

 Eucalypti, and other stately trees, while the more dull- 

 coloured frequent the ground : they all build a neat, round, 

 cup-shaped nest, and the eggs are generally four in number. 

 Their powers of flight are not great ; some enjoy a wide 

 range of habitat, while others are extremely local. The song 

 of some is loud and rather pleasing, while others merely emit 

 a whistling note, slowly but frequently repeated. 



Sp. 113. PACHYCEPHALA GUTTURALIS. 

 White-throated Thickhead. 



Turdus gutturalis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlii. 



Muscicaj)a pectoralis, Lath. lb., p, li. 



Orange-hreasied Thrush, Lewiu, Birds of New Holl., pi. 7. 



Black-crowned Thrush, Lewin, lb., pi. 10. 



Motacilla dubia, Shaw, Nat. Misc., vol. xxii. pi. 949. 



Guttural Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 182. 



Black-breasted Flycatcher, Lath. lb., vol. ii. p. 222. 



Pachycephala gutturalis, Vig. and Horsf. iu Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 239. 

 Turdus lunularis, Steph. Cont. of Shawns Gen. Zool., vol. xiii. part ii. 



p. 200. 



La Cravate blanche, Le Vaill. Ois. d^Afriq., torn. iii. pi. 115. 



Pachycephala fusca, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 240. 



fuliginosa, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 241, 



female or young. 

 If 



Pe-dil-me-dung, Aborigines of Western Australia. 

 Thunder Bird, Colonists of New South Wales. 



Pachycephala gutturalis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. ii. 

 pi. 64. 



It would seem that the whole extent of the southern coast 

 of Australia is inhabited by the present species, for on com- 

 paring adult males from New South Wales, South Australia, 



