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ear-coverts) black; throat and abdomen white; breast, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts washed with rufous; upper-surface of 

 tail greyish-black, edged and tipped narrowly with grey, under- 

 surface of tail dark-grey ; primaries greyish-black, very nar- 

 rowly margined externally with light-grey ; secondaries and 

 wing-coverts greyish-black, deeply margined, and the latter 

 tipped with light-grey ; iris reddish-brown ; bill and feet black. 



Type. — A mature male collected on the Officer Creek, 

 west of the Everard Range, on August 6, 1914, by S. A. 

 White, and now in the Wetunga Collection. 



Range. — Extending from Oodnadatta north to the Mac- 

 Donnell Ranges and west to the Musgrave and Everard 

 Ranges. Differs from L. r. inornatus in being much lighter 

 above, the light margins of the secondaries being much deeper, 

 in some cases half the width of the feather, being of very light- 

 grey ; the breast only having a wash of rufous colour and the 

 abdomen being white, the bill being much narrower and not 

 nearly so robust. 



This bird was met with all over the country between the 

 head of the line and the Musgrave Ranges. Its note is not 

 nearly so melodious as the southern bird, although several 

 notes are in common. Specimens secured are without doubt 

 the same as those collected between Oodnadatta and the 

 MacDonnell Ranges during my expedition the previous year. 

 Birds, even in the second year, although they have the rufous 

 wash and black band (the latter not so pronounced), and have 

 lost the striation of the feathers, do not develop the blaek ear- 

 coverts and lores till the third year at least. 



Leucorcirca tricolor, Vieillot (Black-and-white Fantail). 

 This bird was widely distributed, but nowhere plentiful. 

 On one occasion a Grey Falcon was seen to chase one of these 

 harmless birds round and through a bush till it was captured. 

 There seems to be little or no difference between this bird and 

 those found further south. 



Family CAMPOPHAGIDAE. 



Pteropodocys maxima, Riippell (Ground Cuckoo Shrike). 



Only met with at one locality — at a large water-hole in 



the bed of a creek about fifty miles west of Oodnadatta. The 



birds came in to drink at sundown, were easily distinguished 



by their strange call, and were very shy. 



CORACINA NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE MELANOPS, GmeleU 



(Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike). 



A common bird, often seen in the scrub, as well as in the 

 open and along the water-courses. They seem to feed upon 

 many berries as well as insects. 



