PLATE XLIL 



COLLUKICINCLA PAKVULA (Gould). 



LITTLE SHRIKE- THE USH. 



THIS, the .smallest member of the genus, is in appearance almost a miniature of Colluricincla 

 Brunnea, and like it, is found on the north coast. 



Its shyness of disposition leads it to remain almost entirely in the densest thickets, where it 

 hops about the ground, obtaining there its food of insects and seeds. 



The nest is formed like that of the Brown Shrike-Thrush, and is placed generally in the hollow 

 of a tree at a short distance from the ground. Two eggs are laid, the ground colour of which is 

 greyish-white, and which are speckled with reddish-brown, and sometimes with dark nmber-brown. In 

 length they are one inch, and in breadth nine lines. 



The male is larger than the female, but there is very little difference in their plumage. 



The upper surface, wings, tail, and ear-coverts, are dark olive-brown ; line over the eye, buff ; 

 chin and throat, grey, with a dark line down the centre of each feather \ rest of under surface and 

 rump, light brown ; irides, brown ; bill, black ; legs and feet, brownish-black. 



Habitat : North coast of Australia, 



COLLUHICINCLA SELBTI (Jardine). 



SELBTS SHRIKE-THRUSH 



TJ^HE species under notice, which was named by Jardine after his colleague, Selby, is an inhabitant of 

 Tasmania and the islands in Bass's Straits. 



It is found chiefly in thickets and the densest parts of forests, and it frequents the branches of 

 the trees to a much greater degree than any of its congeners. 



Its food consists of insects and caterpillars, to procure which it makes use of its very strong bill 

 to tear the outer bark from the branches of trees. Whilst engaged in this occupation it continually pours 

 forth a loud and melodious whistling note. 



During the season of incubation a cup-shaped nest, composed of strips of bark and lined with 

 various fine grasses, is built in a fissure of a rock, or in a hole in the bole of a tree. Either two or three 

 eggs are laid, the colour of which is much the same as those of other members of the genus. 



The male has the upper surface, tail, and ear-coverts, slate-grey ; wings and centre of back, 

 brown ; throat and chest, white ; line over the eye and under surface, very light grey ; irides, brown ; 

 bill, black ; legs and feet, greenish-grey. 



The female has the upper surface, wings, and tail, brown ; over the eye a stripe of rust-red ; under 

 surface same as male, except that the throat and chest are tinged with brown. 



Habitats : Tasmania, and adjacent islands. 



