434 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 



C. — General colour grey; wings and tail blackish. 



The Grey Crow-Shrike, S. versicolor (ouneicaudata). New South Wales, 

 Central and South Australia. Brownish-grey. Length 19 inches, 

 tail 8.7. 



The Iieaden Crow-Shrike, S. plumbea. West Australia. Deep leaden-grey. 

 Length 19 inches, tail 9.5. 



In both species the inner web of the basal half and the tips of the 

 primaries, the tips of the tail feathers, and the under tail-coverts are 

 white, very much as in S. arguta. 



The Brown Crow-Shrike, S. fusca. South Australia (Eyre Peninsula). 

 Plumage uniform dusky-brown, four outer feathers on each side of 

 tail broadly tipped with white, the two centre tail feathers very 

 slightly tipped with white; under tail-coverts white. Length 20 

 inches, tarsi 3 inches, bill 3% inches. 



The Grey Jumper. 



Struthidea cinerea. 



The sole representative of this genus, which is restricted to Australia. 



Grey above and below; wings pale brown; tail glossy black; middle 

 feathers glossed with green; iris pearly-white; bill and feet black.- 

 Length 12.7 inches, wing 5.9, tail 6.4. 



An inland bird, always seen in small companies of three or 

 four among trees. The common name is derived from the habit 

 of leaping from branch to branch ; as they leap, they throw up 

 and spread the wings and the tail, and give forth a harsh note. 

 They feed on large insects, particularly beetles. The nest is a 

 deep basin of mud, resembling those of the Magpie Lark and 

 White-winged Chough. It is lined with fine grass and placed 

 on a horizontal limb of a tree. The eggs, five to seven, white, 

 sparingly blotched, principally at the large end, with reddish- 

 brown and purplish and greenish-grey, and measure 1.2 x .85 

 inch. 



The White-winged Chough. 



Corcorax melanorhamphus. 



Australia, except North and West. 



The solitary representative of the genus, which is exclusively Aus- 

 tralian, and remarkable as being so widely isolated from its congeners of 

 the Chough subfamily, which are confined to the continents of the Old 

 World. Black above and below, with purplish and greenish gloss, with 



