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Ixjbnius torqucdus Latham. 

 Plate 8. 

 The description to wliich this Latin name was allotted reads 

 *' Clouded Shrike. Size uncertain ; bill large and bluish ; 

 lore ferruginous ; head, hind-part of the neck, and sides 

 beneath the eye brown ; back and wings the same ; under- 

 parts of the hodiy not unhke tlie upper, but clouded with 

 white ; tail longish ; legs dusky. Inhabits New Holland." 



Sharpe's notes read: "No. 27. This figure is the type of 

 Lanius torqtmtus Lath., which lias generally been referred 

 to Cracticus destructor. Dr. Gadow considered the description 

 of the Clouded Shrike to be insufficient for recognition. There 

 can, however, be no doubt that the identification is correct, 

 and L. torquatus becomes a synonym of C. destructor, as was 

 determined by Gray, Cabanis, and other good ornithologists." 



In ] 843 Gray determined " Lanius torquatus Lath. Vieill," from 

 the Lambert drawing to be " Vanga destrvctor, juv., Temm." 

 and proposed that the name should be "Cracticus torquatus.'' 



At once Gould used the name in Ms Handbook in preference 

 to C. destructor used in the Birds of AustraUa ; Gadow, whose 

 knowledge of bird-skins and nomenclature was very scanty, 

 is apparently responsible for the later rejection, a result 

 almost ridiculous in face of the determination of the real 

 ornithologists. Gray and Gould. 



Unfortunately Sharpe omitted to state that torquatus had 

 priority and should be utihsed, an incontrovertible fact. 



Turdus frivolus Latham. 

 Plate 4. 

 This is the Latin name Latham assigned to his Frivolous 

 Thrush, which he described as follows : " Size of the others ; 

 bill black ; legs lead-colour ; the upper-parts of the body 

 and wings brown ; beneath white, inchning to rufous on the 

 sides of the neck and breast, and to 3^ellow on the sides under 

 the wings ; fore-head and half the crown mixed cinereous 

 and white ; quills somewhat paler, and the tail darker than 

 the rest of the plumage ; the last rather short. Found with 

 the former at Port Jackson." 



