Order PASSERIFORMES. 
ISo. 590 . 
Family PRIONOPIDJE. 
BOWYEBIA BOWERI. 
STRIPE-BREASTED SHRIKE- THRUSH. 
(Plate 481 .) 
Collypjocincla boweri Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. X., pt. 2, p. 244, July 31st, 
1885 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Collyriocincla * boweri Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. X., p. 244, 1885 ; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888; De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensld., Vol. VI., p. 248, 
1889 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 11, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. L, p. 92, 1901 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 239, 1909 ; Broadbent, ib., 
Vol. X., p. 236, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 371, 1912 ; Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 68, pi. xn f. 3 (egg), 1913 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. IV., p. 416, 1914; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 28, 1917; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 161, pi. xxxn., 1920. 
Colluricincla sibilaDeVis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. V., pt. 5, p. 161, 1889 : Cardwell, 
Queensland; Sharpe, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. IV., p. 269, 1903. 
Pinarolestes boweri Sharpe, ib., p. 270 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 82, 1908; Le 
Souef, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 61, 1908. 
Bowyeria boweri Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 240, 1913. 
Bowyeria boweri Jcurandi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 61, April 7th, 
1916 : Kuranda, North Queensland. 
Bowyeria boweri boweri Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland ; Cairns district only. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface slate-grey, including the top of the head, 
entire back, upper tail-coverts, tail, upper wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries ; 
flight-quills blackish-brown, with pale ferrugineous on the outer margins and buffy- 
white on the inner ones which become deeper in colour on the inner secondaries ; 
outer tail-feathers inclining to ochreous-brown ; ear-coverts, sides of neck, and 
sides of breast similar to the back with a tinge of fawn-colour ; rictal-bristles black ; 
lores, feathers in front of the eye, and those covering the nostrils buify-wkite with 
black hair-like tips ; a supraloral streak which extends over to behind the eye 
fawn-colour ; chin and throat pale fawn-colour with black hair-like tips to the 
feathers ; lower throat and breast also fawn-colour with slate-grey shaft-lines ; 
abdomen, flanks, thighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts 
* Also spelt Oolluricincla, Collyriociclila, etc. 
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