STRIPE-BREASTED SHRIKE-THRUSH. 
scrubs. Found this bird on Bellenden Ker, at Palm Camp, 4,000 feet above 
sea level. Also common in the high scrubs in the Herbert on district.” 
North quoted the following note by R. Grant : “In 1889 we found 
Bower’s Shrike-Thrush in pairs all though the scrubs around Boar Pocket, 
about thirty miles from Cairns ; also on the upper Russell River around Lake 
Eicham. They were not shy and would often fly down from a low branch 
to the ground, quite close to one, and pick up some stray insect, and return 
to the branch again. They were only met with low'' down in the scrub, 
generally from ten to twenty feet from the ground. . .” 
Although practically nothing was known of the habits of this rare 
species, Campbell and Barnard, reviewing the birds of N. Queensland, where 
they had been investigating, simply wrote : “ The Bower-Thrush is a fine 
species, and although reddish (rusty) like the last mentioned ( parvissima ) 
Thrush, is large and has its breast more striped. It was mostly seen in the 
ranges. As Broadbent points out, it is a true mountain bird. It has a loud 
and distinctive call.” 
What Campbell and Barnard mean by calling this bird “ reddish (rusty)” 
I cannot understand. 
I described 
Bowyeria boweri kurandi. 
as being “ darker above and below ” from Kuranda, but this is not reddish in 
any way on the upper- surface, this species being easily distinguished from 
all the other smaller Colluricincloid birds by its lack of reddish on the upper- 
surface. 
The plate given in the Emu shows the under-surface of this bird and 
no description is given of the back, so that the wording still remains obscure. 
In the same place Campbell observed that C. rufogaster had not been figured, 
overlooking the fact that the Australian ornithologist Diggles had published 
a painting more than fifty years ago. 
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