Order PAS8ERIF0BMES. 
No. 595. 
Family GRACTIGIDM. 
CRACTICUS NIGROGULARIS. 
BLACK-THROATED BUTCHER-BIRD. 
(Plate 485.) 
Vanga NIGROGULARIS Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (hi.), Jan. 1st, 1837 : New 
South Wales. 
Vanga nigrogularis* Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i.,pl. in., Jan., 1837; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 143, June, 1837. 
Gracticus varius (not of Latham) Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 261, 1827. 
Gracticus nigrogularis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxn. (Vol. II., pi. 49), March 1st, 1846 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 180, 1865 ; Biggies, Ornith. Austr., pt. xix., 
1868 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 95, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 31, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 301, 1901 ; 
Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 90, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 154, pi. x., 
1905 (W.A.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 74, 1905 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 14, 1906; Austin, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 30, 1907 (N.S.W.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 83, 1908 ; Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 138, 
1909 (N.Q.) ; Gibson, ib., Vol. IX., p. 74, 1909 (W.A.) ; Crossman, ib., p. 89 (W.A.) ; 
Hill, ib., Vol. XII., p. 259, 1913 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Kershaw, ib., p. 276 ; 
Macgillivray , ib., Vol. XIII., p. 174, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 47, 
1914 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 212, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 2, 1918; S. A. White, ib., p. 23 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 283, 1919 
(N.S.W.) ; Harvey Brothers, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 35 and pi., 1919 (N.Q.) ; Ashby, 
ib., Vol. XX., p. 136, 1921 (W.A.). 
Gracticus picatus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxiv. (Vol. II., pi. 50), Bee. 1st, 1848: Port 
Essington, Northern Territory ; id., Introd. Birds Austr., 8vo, p. 35, Aug. 1st, 1848 ; 
id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1848, p. 40, Nov. 14th ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. 
1., p. 181, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 180, 1878; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 31, 1899 ; id., Emu, Vol. 
11., p. 51, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; North Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. I., Vol. II., p. 17, 
1906 ; Hah and Rogers, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 140, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 84, 1908; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 182, 1909 (W.A.) ; id., 
ib., Vol. IX., p. 207, 1910 (W.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 281, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; 
* Also spelt nigrigularis. 
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