Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family FALCUNCULIDJE. 
No. 603. 
FALCUNCULUS LEUCOGASTER. 
WHITE-BELLIED SHRIKE-TIT. 
(Plate 491.) 
Falcunculus leucogaster Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1st, 
1838 : Swan River, West Australia. 
Falcunculus leucogaster Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1st, 1838; 
id ., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 144, Dec., 1838; id., Birds Austr., pt. v. 
(Vol. II., pi. 80), Dec. 1st. 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 229, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 174, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 32, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 309, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., pp. 10-18, 1903 ; Hill, ib., p. 106 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 38, 1906 ; Mathews, HandL Birds Austral., 
p. 84, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 74, 1909; Crossman, ib p. 89 ; Whitlock, 
ib., Vol. X., p. 315, 1911 ; id., ib., Vol. XI., p. 242, 1912 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., 
p. 245, 1913; Alexander, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 167, 1921. 
Falcunculus frontatus leucogaster Mathews, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 105, 1911 ; id., Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 376, 1912. 
Falcunculus leucogaster stirlingi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 133, Jan. 
28th, 1915 : Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
Distribution. South-west Australia only. 
Adult male. Top of head, nape, and hind-neck black like a narrow line below the eye, 
which spreads out behind the eye and extends on to the sides of the neck ; lores, 
cheeks, and a broad line on each side of the crown white; back, scapulars, and 
outer aspect of wings dull yellowish-green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
flight-quills blackish, narrowdy fringed with white on the last; the feathers on the 
rump have yellowish-white bases ; upper tail-coverts like the back; middle tail- 
feathers similar to the back with a greyish tinge on the inner-webs, the outer ones 
blackish tipped with white which extends along the outermost feather; chin and 
throat black, many of the feathers on the former have hair-like tips ; breast bright 
yellow like the under tail-coverts ; abdomen and flanks silky-white ; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts more or less tinged with yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills 
hair-brown fringed with white on the basal portion. Eyes brown, bill and feet 
black. Total length 180 mm. ; culmen 16, wing 93, tail 78, tarsus 20. Figured. 
Collected on Lake Baluish, Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia, on the 8th of 
October, 1910. 
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