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food ; but coleoptera and other insects are not rejected. Tlie 

 more gnily-attired species, such as P. gutturalis, P. glaucura, 

 P. melanura, and P.pectorfdis^ 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. xhi. 



Muscicapa pectoralis, Lath. lb., p. li. 



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



Black-crowned Thrush, Levvin, 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. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 239. 

 T\irdus lunularis, Staph. Cont. of Shaw's 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. 



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

 Thunder Bird, Colonists of New South Wales. 



Pachycephala gutturalis, Gould, Birds of AustraKa, 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, 



