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CRACTICIDiE. 
Bulestes mentalis (S. & d’A.). Black-backed Butcher-Bird. 
Distr .—North Queensland and South-West New Guinea. 
Bulestes mentalis mentalis (S. & <TA.). (8-102.) 
Cracticus mentalis Salvadori & d’Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
vol. vii. p. 824, 1875 (1876): Nicura, S.E. New Guinea. 
Distr .—New Guinea (S.E.). 
Bulestes mentalis kempi (Math.), 
Cracticus mentalis kempi , Mathews, Austral Av. Bee. vol. i. p. 95, 
Sept. 18th, 1912 : Cape York, North Queensland. (Fig. Math. x. 
pi. 487). 
Distr .—North Queensland. 
Genus STREPERA Lesson *. 
Strepera Lesson, Traits d’Orn. livr. 5, p. 329, Dec. 1830. (Type by 
tautonymy): Coracias strepera=Corvus graculinus White. 
Coronica Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. i. pi. 5, Jan. 1st, 1837. Type (by 
subsequent designation, Selby, Cat. Gen. & Subgen. Types (Aves), p. 16, 
1840): C. fuliginosa Gould. 
Neostrepera Mathews, Austral Av. Ree. vol. i. p. 196, March 20th, 1913. Type 
(by original designation): Strepera arguta Gould. 
Strepera graculina (J. White). Pied Bell-Magpie. 
Distr. —East Australia and Lord Howe Island. 
Strepera graculina graculina (J. White). (3-57.) 
Corvus graculinus J. White, Journ. Voy. New South Wales, p. 251, 
(before August) 1790 : Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, ii. 
pi. 42.) 
Coracina strepera Latham, Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. 173, (before December 9th) 1790: 
Sydney. 
Oracula chalybea Voigt's ed. CHivier, Thierreich, vol.i. p.435, (pref. Easter) 1831: 
Sydney. 
Barila strepens Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 367. (before Feb.) 
1851, as synonym of graculinus. 
Distr. —New South Wales and South Australia. 
Strepera graculina robinsoni Math. 
Strepera graculina robinsoni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 443, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Johnstone River, North Queensland. (Fig. 
Math. x. pi. 488.) 
Strepera graculina inagnirostris H. L. White, Emu, vol. xxii. p. 258, April 5th, 
1923: Cape York. 
Distr. —North Queensland (Johnston River to Cape York). 
* Cf. Emu, vol. xxv. pp. 199-203, Feb. 11th, 1926; vol. xxvii. pp. 284-5. 
April 3rd, 1928. 
