Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No 592. 
Family CRACTICID/E. 
GYMNORHINA TIBICEN. 
BLACK-BACKED MAGPIE. 
(Plate 483.) 
Cobacias tibicen Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxvii. (after May), 1801 : New South 
Wales (based on Watling drawing No. 66). 
Coracias tibicen Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxvii., 1801. 
Piping-Roller Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 122, 1801. 
Barita tibicen Temminck, Manuel d’Ornith., 2nd ed., Yol. I., p. li., 1820. 
Cracticus tibicen Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 260, 1827 ; 
Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. 1, pi. (4), 1837. 
Gymnorhina tibicen Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., p. 37, 1840 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. xvii. (Vol. II., pi. 46), Dec. 1st, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 175, 
1865; Ramsey, Ibis, 1865, p. 300 (N.S.W.) ; Ramsey, Proc. Linn,. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 180, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 91, 1883; 
Ramsey, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 31, 1899 ; 
id., Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., Vol. XIV., 1901, p. 1 ; id., Emu, Vol. I., p. 30, 
1901 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 290, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 13, 1902 (Vic.) ; Cochrane, ib., Vol. III., p. 48, 1903 (N.Q.) ; Degen, 
ib., Vol. III., p. 131, 1903 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. V., p. 74, 1905 (N.Q.) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 1, 1906; Austin, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 30, 
1907 (N.S.W.) ; Batey, ib., p. 81, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 83, 
1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 222, 1910 (Food); Howe, ib., p. 232 (Vic.); 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., p. 100, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; Gubanyi, ib., p. 120 (N.S.W.) ; 
Broadbent, ib., p. 235 (N.Q.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 87, 1911 (Food) ; Stone, 
ib., Vol. XII., p. 115, 1912 (Vic.) ; Hull, ib., Vol. XIII, p. 15, pi. v. (eggs), 1913 ; 
Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 42, 1913 (Vic.); Bancroft, ib., p. 55; Macgillivray, 
ib., p. 174, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 47, 1914 (N.T.) ; Cheney, 
ib., p. 213, 1915 (Vic.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 38, 1917 (N.Q.) ; 
S. A. White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 23, 1918 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 283, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; 
Cole, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 51, 1921 ; Hall, ib., p. 160, 1922. 
Gymnorhina longirostris Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 96, pi. v., Oct. 1st, 1903: Ashburton 
River, North-west (i.e. Mid-west) Australia ; Degen, ib., p. 201, 1904 ; Le Souef, 
Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 62, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 83, 
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