Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MTJSCICAPIDM. 
No. 472. 
QUOYORNIS GEORGIANUS. 
WHITE-BREASTED SHRIKE ROBIN. 
(Plate 398.) 
Mtjsoicapa georgiana Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de “l’Astrol.,” Zool., Yol. I, p. 175, pref. 
June 29th, 1830 : King George Sound, West Australia. 
Muscicapa georgiana Quoy and Gaimard, Yoy. de “l’Astrol,” Zool., Yol. I., p. 175, 1830. 
Eopsaltria leucogaster * Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 19, May : Perth, West 
Australia; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxiii. (Vol. III., pi. 13), June 1st, 1846; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 296, 1865; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I. ,pts. 6-7. 
p. 158, 1913. 
Eopsaltria gularis (not of Q. & G.) Gray. Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 389, 1869 : 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 181, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Hall. 
Key Birds Austr., p. 33, 1899 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 73, 1902 (S.W.A.). 
Amaurodryas gularis Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 148, 1901. 
Eopsaltria georgiana North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 188, 1903 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 86, 1908 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 18, 1903 (S.W.A. ). 
Pachycephala georgiana Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 317, 1912. 
Quoyornis georgianus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 176, 1913. 
Quoyornis georgianus warreni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 59, April 7th, 
1 916 : Warren River, (South) West Australia. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. 
Adult female. General colour above including the crown of the head, sides of face, back, 
upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, and outer margins of flight-quills 
dark slate colour ; outer edge of wing white ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts 
blackish ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish with a square patch of white on the 
basal portion, the white narrowly extended along the inner edges ; tail dusky- 
brown fringed on the outer margins of the middle feathers with slate-grey like the 
back, the outer feathers broadly tipped with white on the inner webs ; base of lores 
white, the feathers bristly in texture and black in colour ; rictal bristles black , 
chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull white with slate-grey 
tinge across the breast, base of the feathers dark slate-grey ; sides of body and 
axillaries dark slate-grey ; under wing coverts white with a patch of slate-grey at the 
* Also spelt leucogastrct . 
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