Family PRIONOPIDM . 
Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 588. 
CONIGRAVEA PARVULA. 
LITTLE SHRIKE-THRUSH. 
(Plate 480.) 
Colluricincla parvula Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 62, September : Port 
Essington, Northern Territory. 
Colluricincla parvula Gonld, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.), 1845, p. 62 ; id. , Birds Austr., pt. 
xxi. (Vol. II., pi. 78), Pec. 1st, 1845; id., Hanclb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 225, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 5, 1888; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 92, 1901 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 97, 1902 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., 
p. 228, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 370, 1912 ; H. L. 
White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 225, 1917 (N.T.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 184, 
1919 (N.T.). 
Colluricincla turdoides Pucheran, Voy. Pole Sud. Zool., Vol. III., p. 61, pi. ii., Oct. 10th, 
1853 : Raffles Bay, Northern Territory. 
Pinarolestes parvulus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 296, 1877 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 11, 1899 ; Mathews, ILandl. Birds Austral., p. 82, 1908. 
Colluricincla parvula alligator Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 46, April 2nd, 
1912 : Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Colluricincla parvula conigravi Mathews, ib., pt. 4., p. 94, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Admiralty 
Gulf, North-west Australia. 
Colluricincla parvula omissa Mathews, ib., Vol. II., pts. 2 and 3, p. 68, Oct. 23rd, 1913 : 
Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Conigravea parvula parvula Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 239, 1913. 
Conigravea parvula omissa Mathews, ib. 
Conigravea parvula conigravi Mathews, ib. 
Colluricincla parvula melvillensis Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., pt. i., p. 16, Jan. 1st, 
1914 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
.... 
Not G . brunnea melvillensis Zietz, ib. 
Distribution. Adjoining parts of Northern Territory and North-west Australia from 
Arnhem Land to Admiralty Gulf. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface olive-brown, including the top of the 
head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, wings 
and tail ; median and greater upper wing-coverts slightly tipped with dull buff, 
which indicates a double wing-bar ; inner webs of bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and flight-quills dark brown with whitish margins to the last ; rictal-bristles black ; 
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