Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 493. 
Family CA M POP HA GID2E. 
GRAUCALUS ROBUSTUS. 
LITTLE CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
(Plate 415.) 
Lantus robtjstus Latham, Suppl. Index Oraith., p. xvni., after May 30th, 1801 : New 
South Wales. 
Lanius robustus Latham, Suppl. Index Ornith., p. xvm., 1801. 
Corvus melanogaster Latham, ib., p. xxv. : New South Wales. 
Graucalus mentalis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 217, 
Feb. 17th, 1827: South Coast; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 57, 1838; 
id., Birds Austr., pt. xxxii. (Vol. II., pi. 56), Sept. 1st, 1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. 
Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 354, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 195, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 180, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IV., p. 37, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 12, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 98, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, pt. 2, p. 107, 1902 ; Berney, 
Emu, Vol. V., p. 20, 1905 (N.Q.) ; (?) Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 (N.Q.). 
Ceblepyris mentalis Riippell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 36, 1839. 
Ceblepyris ( Graucalus ) affinis Riippell, ib., p. 38 : “ Vermuthlich New Holland.” 
Campephaga mentalis Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, 1846. 
Golluricincla concinna Hutton, Cat. Birds New Zeal., p. 15, 1871 : New Zealand (accidental). 
Colluricincla coccinea Giebel, Thers. Ornith., Vol. III., p. 797, (pref. March) 1877 : error for 
preceding. 
Coracina mentalis Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908. 
Coracina robusta robusta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 327, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 194, 1913. 
Coracina robusta mentalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 327, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 194, 1913. 
Coracina robusta victorice Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, April 7th, 
1916 : Victoria. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 
Adidt female. General colour above pale slate-grey including the top of the head, hind- 
neck, back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing-coverts and outer web of 
secondary-quills, rather paler on the fore-head and upper tail-coverts ; bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackish edged with greyish-white on the 
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