Official Organ of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. 



Birds of a featt)er/ 



Vol. XIX.] isx JANUARY, 1920; [Part 3. 



Bower or Striped'breasted Shrike^Thrush (CoIIuri' 

 cincia boweri, Ramsay). 

 By a. J. Campbell, C.M.B.O.U. 

 Two species of Shrike-Thrushes on the Offixial " Check-Hst " do 

 not yet appear to have been figured — the Bower and the smaller 

 Rufous-breasted (C. riifigaster, Gould). Both are dark-coloured 

 and brownish, but the larger has the breast more striped. The 

 larger also has the more restricted range in Norch Queensland, 

 being confined chiefly to the scrub-clad coastal mountains from 

 the Herberton River district up to the Cairns district, where the 

 original specimens were procured by the late Mr. Bowyer-Bower, 

 December, 1884.* 



Interesting field and nesting notes on this fine and distinctive 

 Shrike-Thrush are given in the Appendix, " Special Catalogue, 

 No. I," Australian Museum (North's " Nests and Eggs," iv., 

 p. 416), and more recently a field note by Messrs. Campbell and 

 Barnard appears in The Emu, xvii., p. 29. 



The sexes of the Bower Shrike-Thrush are alike in coloration. 

 Total length, about 8 inches, with a wing 4 inches. 



The specimen figured is an exhibit in the National Museum, 

 Melbourne. 



The Small-billed Tit-Warbler (Acanthiza morgani). 



By a. J. Campbell, C.M.B.O.U., Melbourne. 

 TiiKorGH the generosity of subscribers to the " Coloured h'igure 

 Inmd," headi'd by Mr. H. L. White, the Council continues to 

 furnish plates of hitherto unfigured birds. 



The plate in the last part {ante, p. 81, pi. xix.) portrays the 

 Short-billed Tit-Warl:)ler {Acanthiza niorgani) {tenuirostris) (No. 

 506, " Official Check-list.") Capt. S. A. White, in naming the 

 plate and writing the note connected therewith, considers the 

 species to be the Geobasileus hedleyi rosince of Mathews. 



Acanthiza morgani on recent lists has confusingly appeared 

 under different names (both generic and specific) — from Western 

 Australia as ,1. iredalei (Mathews, "List of the Birds of Aus- 

 tralia," 1913, p. 217) ; from South Australia a.?,' Geobasileus hedleyi 

 (but without ornithological description — practically a " nude 

 name "), with its supposed sub-species rosina — also without tech- 



* Proc. Linu. Soc. N.S.W., vol x., p. 244 (1885). 



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