COLLARED BUTCHER-BIRD. 
the lady took one of the injured birds out of the cage and was holding it on 
her open hand to see if actually dead, the Butcher-Bird alighted on her hand, 
and tried to carry the canary away. In July, 1912, a young baby was sleeping 
in a perambulator on the house verandah at Katanning when a Butcher-Bird 
attacked its face, but was fortunately seen, and driven away before serious 
damage was done to the child. There is no doubt about this, the mother 
being Mrs. House, the wife of Doctor House, of Amytis housei fame, and she 
herself told my wife the story. On one occasion, in one of my paddocks at 
Broome Hill , my attention was attracted by a Black and White Fantail 
( R. tricolor ) making a great scolding and fluttering about a Jam tree. Upon 
going to it, a Butcher-Bird flew out, and looking upwards, I saw another Black 
and White Fantail suspended above me. I climbed up to it and found that 
its neck was jambed in the fork of a small branch, where it had evidently been 
placed by the Butcher-Bird, and most of the feathers had been plucked off 
its body, It was probably the mate of the Flycatcher.” 
This bird was apparently first figured in the “ Watling ” drawings and 
upon the figure Latham based his Lanius torquatus. The description was 
not recognised at first, and Temminck described it as a new species under the 
name Vanga destructor , and with this specific name, but referred to the genus 
Cracticus , it was figured in his folio work by Gould. Later Gray, upon 
examination of the “ Lambert ” drawings, recognised that the name Lanius 
torquatus was given to one of these paintings, easily recognised as the immature 
of this species. It may be here noted that the “ Lambert ” drawings were 
painted by Watling, but the series known as the “ Watling ” paintings consists 
of a second set of the same drawings and others added. Gould immediately 
accepted the usage of Latham’s name, but Gadow, with no knowledge of 
bibliographical work and almost less of ornithological systematics, discarded 
Latham’s name. Gadow would, however, undoubtedly have been justified 
in his action in this particular case had there not been recourse to the original 
painting. 
The original description reads : 
“ L. torquatus. L. fuscus subtus albo nebulosus, lor is ferrugineis. 
Clouded Shrike, Gen. Syn. Sup. II., p. 73, No. 10. 
Habitat in Nova Hollandia ; rostrum ccerulescens ; canda elongata. 
“ Clouded Shrike. Size uncertain ; bill large and blueish ; lore ferru- 
gineous ; head, hindpart of the neck, and sides beneath the eye 
brown ; back and wings the same ; under parts of the body not 
like the upper, but clouded with white ; tail longish ; legs dusky. 
Inhabits New Holland.” 
It is obvious that no one could determine such a description without 
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