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Family LANIAD^. 



Genus^STREPERA, Lesson. 



3-f STEEPER A GRACULINA, White. 



Pied Crow-shrike. 



QoulJ, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 88, p. 168. 



This species is found throughout New South Wales, Victoria, 

 and parts of Queensland. It constructs its nest in the forked 

 branch of a tree, usually a Eucalyptus or Casuarina, it is a large, 

 open, bowl-shaped structure, outwardly composed of sticks, and 

 lined with strips of bark and grasses. Eggs three or four in 

 number for a sitting, of a pale chocolate-brown, with faint 

 blotchings and markings of reddish-brown, in some instances a 

 few obsolete irregular shaped spots of lilac appear as beneath the 

 surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-65 x 1-12 inch ; (B) 17 x 1-15 

 inch; (C) 1-63 x 1-2 inch. 



The breeding season commences in August and lasts during 

 the three following months. 



Ilab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Bamsay.) 



-3. 8TREPERA CUNEICAUDATA, VieiUot. 



(S. anaphonensis, Gould.) 

 Grey Crow-shrike, 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 91, p. 173. J^ZT. / 



This species has a very wide range, being found at Rockingham 

 Bay in the North and extending to Victoria in the South ; the 

 opinion originally held by Mr. Gould that the Western Australia 

 species is different, has been upheld by Mr. Sharpe, therefore the 

 name of 8. plumhea given to it by Mr. Gould holds good for the 

 West Australian species. 



