BLACK-FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 194, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. II., p. 180, 
1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 32, 1879; Legge, Papers Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 239, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 12, 1899 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, p. 105, 
1902 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 205, 1903 (King Island) ; Littler, ib., 
Vol. III., p. 24, 1903 (Tas.) ; Mellor and White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 162, 1913 (Flinders 
Island) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 17, 1910. 
Ceblepyris parvirostris Riippell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 36, 1839. 
Campephaga parvirostris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, 1846. 
Campephaga melanotis, Gray, ib. 
Graucalus robustus (nec Latham), Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 113,. 
1906. 
Coracina robusta Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 127,. 
1910 (Eyre Peninsula, S.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 194 (M.-W.A.) 
Graucalus melanops parvirostris Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds., Vol. I., p. 97,. 
1901. 
Coracina parvirostris Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908. 
Coracina melanops tasmanica Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 100, July 13th,. 
1911 : Tasmania. 
Coracina novcehollandice novcehollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 326, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 193, 1913. 
Coracina novcehollandice melanops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 326, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 193, 1913; Belcher, Birds of Geelong, p. 245, 1914. 
Coracina novcehollandice westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 326, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 193, 1913. 
Coracina novcehollandice subpallida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 326, Jan. 31st, 
1912: (Strelly River) North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 193, 1913; 
id., Ibis, 1914, p. 122; id.. South Austr. Ornith.. Vol. III., pt. 5, p. 138, Jan. 1st, 
1918 ; Soderberg, Kungl. Svenska Vet. Handl., Band III., No. 17, p. 88, 1918. 
Coracina novcehollandice connectens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 326, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Inkerman, Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 193, 1913 ; id., South Austr. 
Ornith., Vol. H., pt. 3, p. 56, July 1st, 1915. 
Coracina novcehollandice didimus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 42, April 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, lores, rictal bristles, sides of the face including the eye,, 
throat, and fore-neck deep black ; crown of head, entire back, upper tail-coverts, 
scapulars, upper wing-coverts, outer webs of secondaries, and outer margins and 
tips of flight-quills pale ash-grey ; bastard- wing black ; flight-quills blackish, 
broadly margined with white on the inner webs ; middle tail-feathers greyish- 
brown, the outer feathers blackish broadly tipped with white ; breast and thighs 
ash-grey becoming paler on the sides of the body ; lower abdomen, vent, under 
tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts and inner margins of flight-quills below 
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