Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family CRACTICID M. 
No. 600. 
STREPERA EULIGINOSA. 
BLACK CROW-SHRIKE. 
(Plate 488.) 
Coronica euliginosa Gould, Synops, Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (5), Jan. 1st, 1837 : Tasmania. 
Coronica fuliginosa Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (5), Jan. 1st, 1837. 
Cracticus fuliginosus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 106, Feb. 1837. 
Strepera fuliginosa Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 302, 1846 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxi. 
(Yol. II., pi. 43), June 1st, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 170, 1865; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 61, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 180, 1878; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 239, 1887; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 8, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 62, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 17, 1902 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 205, 1903 : 
King Island ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. III., pp. 49-108, 1903 (Tas.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., 
Vol. IV., p. 118, 1905 (Vic. and Tas.) ; Mellor, ib., Vol. VI., p. 169, 1907 (Tas.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 108, 1908 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 
196-198, 1909 (Bass Straits Islands) ; Armstrong, ib., Vol. IX., p. 157, 1910 (Bass 
Straits Islands) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tas., p. 14, 1910 ; Thompson, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 39, 1911 (Tas.) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 445, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 315, 1913 ; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 227, 1918 ; Lord, ib., 
Vol. XIX., p. 106, 1919. 
Strepera fuliginosa colei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 63, April 7th, 
1916 : King Island. 
Strepera fuliginosa fuliginosa Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Tasmania. King Island, Bass Straits. 
Adult male. General colour, both on the upper and under-surface, black with dusky grey 
bases to the feathers ; the under-parts however are not so glossy-black as above 
and incline to soot-black ; inner-webs of primary-quills more or less white at the 
base of the inner webs, the majority of the flight-quills fringed with white at the 
tips ; tail-feathers tipped with white, more extensively on the outer feathers, the 
rictal-bristles fairly numerous but not so strongly developed ; the lores and feathers 
on the fore-cheeks bristly in texture, like those on the chin and upper-throat ; the 
under-surface of the flight-quills is blackish with more or less greyish-white at the 
base and the majority tipped with white, and the lower aspect of the tail is similar 
to its upper-surface but the dark portion not so black. Eyes yellow, bill and feet 
black. Total length 480 mm. ; culmen 63, wing 270, tail 183, tarsus 60. Figured. 
Collected near Launceston, Tasmania. 
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