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under tail-coverts ; all the feathers of the under surface have 

 a narrow dark line down the centre ; thighs grey ; irides 

 dark reddish brown ; bill blackish brown ; feet dark greenish 

 leaden grey. 



Sp. 125. COLLURICINCLA BRUNNEA, Gould. 



Brown Shrike-Thrush. 



Collwicincla brunnea, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 164. 

 Men-e-loo-roo, Aborigines of Port Essiugtoa. 



CoUuricincla brunnea, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. pi. 76. 



This bird is abundantly dispersed over the Cobourg Penin- 

 sula, and is to be met with in all the forests in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Port Essington and the north coast gene- 

 rally, in which distant localities it represents the CoUuricincla 

 harmonica of New South Wales, the C. Selbii of Tasmania, 

 and the C. riifiventris of Western Australia. As might be 

 expected, its habits, manners, and general economy are very 

 similar to those of the other species of the genus ; conse- 

 quently the description of those of C. harmonica is equally 

 descriptive of those of C. brunnea. 



A nest of this bird found on the 2nd of Eebruary was built 

 in the upper part of a hollow stump, and was outwardly 

 formed of narrow strips of the bark of the Melaleuca^ and 

 lined with fine twigs. The eggs are of a pearly bluish white, 

 spotted and blotched with markings of olive-brown and grey, 

 the latter colour appearing as if beneath the surface of the 

 shell ; their medium length is one inch and two lines, by ten 

 lines in breadth. 



It is a larger and more robust species than either C. har- 

 monica or C. rujiventris, the bill is shorter and much stouter, 

 and the colouring is of a uniform light brown ; even the 

 primaries and tail-feathers are of the same hue. 



All the upper surface pale brown ; primaries and tail the 

 same, but somewhat lighter ; all the under surface brownish 



