Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 490. 
Family CAMPOPHAGIDJE. 
PTEROPODOCYS MAXIMA. 
GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
(Plate 412.) 
Ceblepyris maxima Ruppell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 28, 1839 : “ New 
Holland ” = New South Wales. 
Ceblepyris maxima Ruppell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 28, 1839. 
Graucalus phasianellus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 142, March, 1840 : 
Liverpool Plains, New South Wales. 
Pteropodocys phasianella Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxv. (Vol. II., pi. 59), 1 Dec., 1846 ; 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 355, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 199, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 22, 1879 ; Ramsay, 
List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 11, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 95, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, pt. 2, p. 110, 1902 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 106, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Berney, 
ib., Vol. V., p. 20, 1905 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 67, 1908; 
Crossmann, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 87, 1909 (S.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 194, 1910 
(M.-W.A.) ; Jackson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 93, pi. xiv., 1912 ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. 
XIII., p. 169, 1914 (N.Q.) ; C. E. Cole, ib., Vol. XV., p. 184^1916 (Vic.). 
Campephaga phasianellus Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. L, p. 283, 1846. 
Pteropodocys maxima Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878. \\ 
Pteropodocys maxima maxima Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 325, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 192, 1913. 
Pteropodocys maxima neglecta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 325, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
Broome Hill, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 192, 1913. 
Pteropodocys maxima pallida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 325, Jan. 31, 1912: 
Alexandra, Northern Territory; id., List Birds Austr., p. 192, 1913; Soderberg, 
Kungl. Svenska Vet. Handl., Band LII., p. 88, 1918. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult female. Crown of head, mantle, upper back, and scapulars pale slate-grey with 
somewhat darker shaft-lines to the feathers ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts greyish- white, finely mottled and narrowly barred with black ; lesser upper 
wing-coverts similar to the back but rather darker, some of the outer ones edged 
only with grey ; median and greater series, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
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