510 STREPERID %. 
round the larger end. They vary in length from 1°52 to 1°71, and 
in breadth from 1°17 to 1-2. 
2. West Australia. Gould Coll. 
1. [West Australia. | Crowley Bequest. 
1. West Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 
1. Swan River, W. Australia, Nov. Crowley Bequest. 
(Rev. G. J. Bostock: Tristram 
Coll.). 
Strepera intermedia, Sharpe. 
Strepera intermedia, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 59 (1877); North, 
Pr, Linn: Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 405 (1887); North, Nests § Eggs 
Birds Austr. p. 56 (1889); Campbell, Nests & Eggs Austr. Birds, 
i. p. 62 (1901). 
Strepera fusca, Ashby, Emu, vy. p. 27 (1905); Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 630 
(1909). 
Two eggs of Sharpe’s Crow-Shrike are similar to those of 
S. graculina, the ground-colour being pale greyish-pink in both 
specimens; the markings are most numerous towards the smaller 
end. They measure respectively: 1°55 by 1°25 and 1:62 by 1-21. 
There can be no doubt that S. fusca, Ashby, from York Peninsula, 
is synonymous with S. atermedia, Sharpe, from Port Lincoln; and 
that the latter is quite distinct from S. melanoptera, Gould, with 
which Sharpe himself has united it in his Hand-list. 
9. York Peninsula, South Australia, Crowley Bequest. 
14th Oct. (4. J. North). 
Strepera fuliginosa (Gould). 
Strepera fuliginosa, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 170 (1865) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 61 (1877); North, Nests § Eggs 
Birds Austr. p. 57 (1889) ; Campbell, Nests § Egys Austr. Birds, i. 
p- 62 (1901); North, Nests § Eggs Birds Austr. i. p. 17, pl. Bi. 
fic, 11 (1901); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 680 (1909); Nehrk, Kat. 
Hiersamml. p. 864 (1910). 
Five eggs of the Sooty Crow-Shrike resemble those of S. gracu- 
lina, but all are of a rather more elongate oval shape and distinctly 
pointed towards the smaller end. The ground varies from pinkish- 
cream-colour and greyish-pink to pale brick-colonr. In the paler 
eggs the umber-brown and lilac-grey markings are somewhat 
faint, while the darker eggs from King Island are more strongly 
and densely marked and show traces of black hair-lines round 
the larger end. North assures us that S. fuliginosa is the species 
found on the Islands in Bass Strait, and that it is especially 
common on the shores of King Island. They measure respectively : 
1°88 by 1°12; 1:82 by 1:24; 1:8 by 1:25; 1°75 by 1125 and 1-7 
by 1°16. 
2. King Island, Bass Strait, 18th Crowley Bequest. 
Sept. (4. J. North). 
1. Tasmania (2 P. Seymour). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Tasmania (Hinsby Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
1. ‘Tasmania. Gould Coll, 

