BROWN SHRIKE-THRUSH. 
country, where conditions favour their habits. At Cape York there is one 
large Colluricinda and one small. The latter is easily placed as C. rujigaster. 
The former is in dispute. Mr. North refers it also to C. hrunnea, and states 
that it does not agree with the type of C. superciliosa Masters, the latter bird 
having a broad white eyebrow, and being very distinct from my specimens. 
Mr. Mathews refers my Cape York specimens to G. superciliosa. If that be 
correct, then the type skin must be abnormal, as my skins do not show any 
white eyebrow, or, at any rate, no very distinct one ; and, again, the female 
of C. hrunnea is supposed to have a white eyebrow. Mr. McLennan met with 
only the one species at Cape York in the course of two years, and it is not 
likely that he could overlook as conspicuous a bird if any other such existed 
there. Skins were obtained at Paira, Peak Point, and on the Jardine River, 
all of the same species, and several nests were found containing either 
young birds or eggs.” 
Barnard wrote from the McArthur River, Northern Territory : “C. 
hrunnea. Found mostly on the flat country, and occasionally on low 
sandstone hills.” 
McLennan from the King River wrote : “ Fairly plentiful in forest 
country. Stomach: small remains of insects and seeds, beetles, grass- 
hoppers, and lizard bones. Small worms in eye membrane, and larger ones 
in liver.” 
The technical history is almost as brief as its economic. Gould described 
the species from the N.W. Coast of Australia, which to the present day, as 
at that time, includes Port Essington. Because the latter is now included in 
the political division of Northern Territory it does not alter its geographical 
position. 
A confusion arose through Sharpe’s action in describing as a new species 
a bird from Port Essington with a pale bill as C. pallidirostris. \\ 
Ramsay suggested : “ G. superciliosa Masters, may be a very old bird 
of G. hrunnea Gould, and probably the same as Sharpe’s G. pallidirostris. 
It (G. superciliosa) has a distinct, broad white stripe over the eye and 
extending beyond it, and is a fully adult bird ; the young of G. hrunnea have 
a buff line over the eye.” 
It is now generally conceded that G. pallidirostris Sharpe was based 
on the female of G. hrunnea from the typical locality. 
Since I drew up my “ Reference List ” in 1912 many specimens have 
come to hand, and I have named 
Colluricinda hrunnea parryi. 
“ Differs from C. h. hrunnea in its very much paler general coloration. 
Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia.” 
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