BLACK-THROATED BUTCHER-BIRD. 
Mr. J. P. Rogers has written me : “At Marngle Creek a few birds came 
near the camp, but were decidedly rare. At Mungi very few were seen ; these 
birds are usually found in small parties numbering up to five or six birds. Are 
usually found in patches of large timber and are often fairly numerous in the 
belts of bloodwood (a species of Eucalyptus ) which are found near the base of 
the Ranges. Even the largest trees in this district are not very large ; I doubt 
if many would reach 100 feet, so when I speak of large timber it is only in 
comparison to other trees in this district. Melville Island. Nov. 20, 1911. 
Cooper’s Camp. This species frequents the forest country and is usually to 
be found on some ridges about a mile north-east of my camp: Is not very 
numerous and is rather wild ; usually found in small parties. Jan. 13, 1912. 
10 miles S.E. of Snake Bay. Not manjr seen in this locality. Feb. 1, 1912. 
Back again at Cooper’s Camp, this species is still here in small parties in the 
forest.” 
Mr. Tom Carter has sent me a long note : “ The Black- throated Butcher- 
Bird (C. nigrigularis ) is given in your 1912 ‘List’ as occurring generally in West 
Australia. It occurs in the North-west and Mid- west, but was never observed 
in the South-west, and apparently is not found there. I have seen them at 
various localities on the northern part of the Midland Railway and at Mullewa 
on the Murchison railway, also on the Gascoyne and Minilya Rivers, the Lyndon 
River and inland from Point Cloates on the Cardabia Creek. Many settlers 
do not distinguish this species from Gigmnorhina. The note is a beautiful, 
rich flute-like one, and it was some years before I succeeded in shooting one of 
the birds and found out the producer of such a fine song, because the birds were 
not common on the Minilya River, and did not occur within forty miles of 
Point Cloates. They are also usually wild and wary, but occasionally an odd 
bird was seen feeding about my sheep yards on the Cardabia Creek, after lamb- 
tailing. On July 19, 1900, I camped in a patch of Mallee scrub near the 
Cardabia, where I had previously heard the notes of the bird that had puzzled 
me, while driving through to my inland run. There was a good moon, and 
one of the birds began its song about 2 a.m. and continued it, at intervals, 
until daybreak, when my native boy and self had breakfast, and started out 
in the patch of light timber. The bird kept singing ahead of us about two 
hundred yards away as we walked along, and after walking after it for some 
hours, we were returning to camp for dinner, when we saw two black and white 
birds fiercely attacking a crow. On approaching them, a bulky nest was seen 
in one of the trees, about fifteen feet above the ground. I sat down awaiting 
the return of the owners. The male returned first, and settled in the nest 
on the eggs. I shot it, and found that its back was grey, sex determined by 
dissection. A few minutes afterwards the female returned, and was also 
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