BUFF-BELLIED SHRIKE-THRUSH. 
Captain White recorded : “ This bird was met with in the timbered 
country (Cape Naturaliste district, W.A.), but was not plentiful anywhere. 
The habits of this form seem identical with those of the South Australian 
bird.” 
Ashby observed : “ Common at Geraldton and Dongara, but we did 
not secure any specimens there ; I am sorry for this, as the skins I procured 
at Ellensbrook differs considerably from a specimen I took in 1901 at Callion, 
on the goldfields.” 
Captain S. A. White states : 44 Although the habits of G. r. ivhitei are 
much like those of C. harmonica its voice is not nearly so good. Possibly 
this is owing to the dry country which it inhabits. I have met with this 
bird all through the north and north-west country of South Australia. 
Out in the Great Mulga scrubs winch cover miich of our vast interior this 
bird is to be met with, where it takes much of its food on or near the ground.” 
Mr. J. W. Mellor has written me : “ I am well acquainted -with this 
bird in the more western portions of South Australia, where I have taken 
particular notice of the distribution while on Eyre’s Peninsula on the several 
occasions that I have been studying bird life in the bush on that large tract 
of land. I find that it comes east right up to the western shores of Spencer’s 
Gulf, but no further, and does not occur on Yorke Peninsula ; the waters 
seem to form the barrier for its extension eastwards, but it goes right over 
to the western boundary of West Australia and then on into that vast 
trackless waste which extends for hundreds of miles in that State, wherever 
mallee, broom-bush and yacca are found in abundance.” 
Captain S. A. White writing about the birds of Eyre’s Peninsula 
observed : 44 These birds were fairly plentiful along the creek. Habits 
seemed identical with those G. harmonica. We do not think they have so 
liquid and pleasing a note as the eastern birds. Returning to Arno Bay, for 
the last few miles, close to the sand-dunes we saw a very dark-coloured 
Thrush in the mangrooves, which were very thick along a salt creek. After 
a great deal of trouble we secured a specimen, which we believe to be C. 
rufiventris. It resembles that bird, excepting that its entire plumage is 
very dark, due, no doubt, to its living among the mangroves.” Then, 
recording the results of a trip to the Gawler Ranges, Captain White wrote : 
44 Wherever there was sufficient scrub for shelter we met with this fine bird. 
Observations proved that they procure much of their food on the ground, 
over which they hop in an exceedingly sprightly manner.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby mites : 44 My knowledge of this bird in the State of 
South Australia is limited to the district west of Port Augusta in the neigh- 
bourhood of Lake Gillies, It extends from there westward into Western 
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