Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 585. 
Family PRIONOPIDAL 
COLLURICINCLA BRUNNEA. 
BROWN SHRIKE-THRUSH. 
(Plate 479.) 
Colluricincla brunnea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 164, July, 1841 : 
N.W. Coast Australia = Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Spelt Colluriocincla, CoUyriocichla, etc. 
Colluricincla brunnea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 164, 1841 ; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. 31 (Vol. II., pi. 76), June 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 223, 1865; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 291, 1877; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 
1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 11, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 91, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 107, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Le Souef, 
ib., Vol. II., p. 88, 1902 (N.T.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 95, 
1903 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 158 ; Vol. VII., p. 81, 1907 (Food) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 82, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 179, 1909 (W.A.) ; 
Jackson, ib., p. 247 (N.Q.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 280, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Shufeldt, ib., 
Vol. XI., pi. xix., xx., 1912 (Egg) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 370, 
1912 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 173, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 47 (N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 225 (N.T.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 184, 1919 (N.T.). 
Collyriocincla pallidirostris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 293, June, 1877 : 
Port Essington, Northern Territory; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5-25, 
1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 11, 1899; id., Emu, Vol. I., pp. 88-106, 1902 
(N.W.A.). 
Colluricincla brunnea parryi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 46, April 2nd, 
1912 : Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 238, 1913. 
Colluricincla brunnea roebuclci Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 94, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia.; id., List Birds Austr., p. 238, 1913. 
Colluricincla brunnea caloola Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. i., p. 10, Aug. 2nd, 
1913 : Caloola, Leichhardt River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 238, 1913. 
Colluricincla brunnea melvillensis Zeitz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., pt. i., p. 16, Jam 
1st, 1914 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
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