THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Cracticus torquatus colleiti Mathews, Austral Ay. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 46, April 2nd, 
1912 : (Mary River) Northern Territory. 
Cracticus torquatus colei Mathews, ib., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 119 : Dec. 24th, 1912 : Mallee, 
Victoria. 
Bulestes torquatus torquatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 244, 1913. 
Bulestes torquatus olindus Mathews, ib., p. 244 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 306, 1914. 
Bulestes torquatus colei Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 244, 1913. 
Bulestes torquatus cinereus Mathews, ib. 
Bulestes torquatus etheloe Mathews, ib. ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 14, 1916 (SA.) ; 
id., ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 198, 1919 (S.A.). 
Bulestes torcquatus leuco'pterus Mathews, List Birds Austi., p. 244, 1913. 
Bulestes torquatus argenteus Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Adult male. Top of head, sides of face, nape, and hind-neck black ; sides of neck white ; 
entire back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts pale slate-grey with dark shaft- 
lines to the feathers ; the inner greater wing-coverts have more or less white on 
the outer w r ebs ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and flight-quills black, paler and 
inclining to white on the inner webs, some of the secondary quills broadly margined 
with white ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail black, tipped with white on the lateral 
feathers ; lores whitish with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; rictal-bristles 
black ; chin cream- white with hair-like tips to the feathers ; throat, breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, and thighs greyish with dusky bases to the feathers ; under tail- 
coverts, axillaries and under wing- coverts white ; under-surface of flight-quills 
grey with whitish margins becoming darker towards the terminal portion of the 
wing ; lower aspect of the tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes dark, feet black, 
bill black at the tip, base bright bluish horn-colour. Total length 295 mm. ; 
culrnen 37, wing 147, tail 115, tarsus 32. Figured. Collected at Mt. Dutton, West 
Coast of Eyre's Peninsula, on the 20th of August, 1911, and is the type of C. t. etheloe. 
Admit female. Somewhat like the immature described. 
Adult. Crown of head and sides of face black ; sides of neck black with white bases to 
the feathers ; mantle also black with grey bases to the feathers, becoming paler 
on the upper back, where the feathers are fringed with dark olive ; lower back, 
rump, and scapulars dark slate-grey ; lesser and median upper wing-coverts similar 
to the upper-back ; inner greater coverts more or less greyish- white on the outer 
webs ; outer edge of wing white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and flight-quills 
blackish-brown, the inner webs of the last white at the base, which increases in 
extent on the inner secondaries, some of which are fringed with white on the outer 
webs ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail blackish-brown with a large blotch of white 
on the inner webs at the tips of the lateral feathers ; lores and feathers below the 
eye white with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; rictal-bristles black with white 
bases ; chin white with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; throat and fore-neck 
also white ; breast, abdomen, and sides of body pale grey ; thighs, vent and under 
tail-coverts white like the axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of 
flight-quills below, remainder of quill-lining greyish-brown ; lower aspect of tail 
greyish on the outer feathers, which are white at the tips on the inner webs, and 
blackish on the central ones with white at the tips of the inner webs. Total length 
288 mm. ; culrnen 35, wing 140, tail 106, tarsus 32. Figured. Collected at Olinda, 
Victoria, on the 9th of May, 1908, and is the type of Cracticus torquatus olindus. 
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