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DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA : 



Appended is a list of those birds which have been 

 proved by competent authorities to be destroyers of 

 insects in our colony, and I have to thank Messrs. A. J. 

 Campbell, D. Le Souef, and A. Coles for their assistance 

 in the compilation of the list. 



The common names are those generally adopted, and 

 which for convenience sake are placed before the scientific 



names. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL 

 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS OF VICTORIA. 



Common Name. 



Acanthiza (Chestnut-rumped) 

 Acanthiza (Little) 

 Acanthiza (Little Brown) 

 Acanthiza (Red-rumped) 

 Acanthiza (Striated) 

 Bee-eater (Australian) - 

 Bristle Bird - - 



Bristle Bird (Rufous-headed)- 

 Bustard, or Wild Turkey 

 Calamanthus (Field) 

 Calamanthus ( Striated) - 

 Campephaga (Jardine's) 

 Campephaga (White-shouldered) 

 Cincloramphus (Black-breasted) 

 Cincloramphus (Brown) 

 Cincloramphus (Rufous-tinted) 

 Chthonicola (Little) 

 Coach-whip Bird - 

 Crow-shrike (Black-throated) 

 Crow-shrike (Collared) - 

 Crow-shrike (Grey) 

 Crow-shrike (Hill) 

 Crow-shrike (Pied) 

 Crow-shrike (Sooty) 

 Crow-shrike (White-backed) - 

 Cuckoo (Black-eared) - 

 Cuckoo (Bronze) - 

 Cuckoo (Brush) - 

 Cuckoo (Fan-tailed) 

 Cuckoo (Narrow-billed Bronze) 

 Cuckoo (Pallid or Unadorned) 

 Diamond Bird (Allied Pardalote) 



Scientific Name. 

 Acanthiza uropygialis. 



nana. 



pusilla. 



pyrrhopygia. 



lineata. 

 Merops ornatus. 

 Sphenura brachyptera. 



Broadbenti. 

 Choriotis Australis. 

 Calamanthus campestris. 

 fuliginosus. 



Edoliisoma teniurostre. 



tricolor. 

 Cincloramphus cantillans. 



cruralis. 



Ptenasdus rufescens. 

 Chthonicola sagittata. 

 Psophodes crepitans. 

 Cracticus robustus. 



torquatus. 

 Strepera cuneicaudota. 



melanoptera. 



graculina. 



,, fuliginosa. 

 Gymnorhina leuconota. 

 Mesocalius palliolatus. 

 Chalcites plagosus. 

 Cuculus insperatus. 



flabelliformis. 

 Chalcites basalis. 

 Cuculus pallidus. 

 Pardalotus affinis. 



