Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 594. 
Family CRACTICIDM. 
MELLORIA QUOYI. 
BLACK BUTCHER-BIRD. 
(Plate 484.) 
[Barita quoyi Lesson and Garnot, Bull. Sci. Nat. et Geol. (Ferussac), Vol. X., p. 289, 
1827 : Dorey Harbour, N.W. New Guinea. Extra-limital.] 
Cracticus spaldingi Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 211, Jan., 1878 : 
Port Darwin, Northern Territory ; Masters, ib., p. 271, May. 
Cracticus quoyii Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxviii. (Vol. II., pi. 53), Sept. 1st, 1847 ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 183, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 180, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 94, 1883 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 31, 1899 ; 
Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. X., p. xl., 1900 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 299, 1901 ; Cochrane, Emu, Vol. III., p. 49, 1903 (N.Q.) ; 
Cornwall, ib., p. 189, 1904 ; id., ib , Vol. IV., p. 138, pi. vn. and vm, 1905 ; id., 
ib., Vol. VI., p. 83, 1906 ; id., ib., Vol. VTII., p. 138, 1909 ; Broadbent, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., pp. 27-30, 1911 ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XIII., p. 71, pi. xii. f. 1 (egg), 1913; Macgillivray, ib., p. 174, 1914; H. L. 
White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 225, 1917; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 188, 1919. 
Cracticus spaldingi Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 211, 1878 ; Masters, 
ib., p. 271 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Kej r Birds Austr., 
p. 32, 1899 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 21, 1906 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 83, 1908 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 62, 1908 ; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. X., p. 337, 1911. 
Cracticus rufescens De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 562, April, 1883 : Tully 
River Scrubs, North Queensland ; Gould (Sharpe) Birds New Guinea, pt. xxm. 
(Vol. III., pi. 16), 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 32, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 306, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 18, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 83, 1908 ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 37, 1916 ; 
Macgillivray, ib., p. 212, 1918. 
Cracticus quoyi tunneyi Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 228, Feb. 11th, 1905 : Alligator 
River, Northern Territory; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 112, 1906. 
Cracticus quoyi rufescens Hartert, ib. ; Mathews, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 373, 1912. 
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