STREPERA. 
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Family LANIADiE. 
Genus STREPERA, Lesson. 
STREPERA GRACULINA, White. 
Pied Crow-shrike. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust, Yol. i., sp. 88, p. 168. 
This species is found throughout New South Wales, Victoria, 
and parts of Queensland. It constructs its nest in the forked 
branch of a tree, usually a Eucalyptus or Casuarina, it is a large, 
open, bowl-shaped structure, outwardly composed of sticks, and 
lined with strips of bark and grasses. Eggs three or four in 
number for a sitting, of a pale chocolate-brown, with faint 
blotchings and markings of reddish-brown, in some instances a 
few obsolete irregular shaped spots of lilac appear as beneath the 
surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-65 x 1-12 inch ; (B) 1-7 x 1-15 
inch; (C) l - 63 x T2 inch. 
The breeding season commences in August and lasts during 
the three following months. 
llab. Rockinglmtn Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
STREPERA CUNEICAUDATA, Vieillot. 
(S. anaphonensis, Gould.) 
Grey Crow-shrike. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 91, p. 173. 
This species has a very wide range, being found at Rockingham 
Bay in the North and extending to Victoria in the South; the 
opinion originally held by Mr. Gould that the Western Australia 
species is different, has been upheld by Mr. Sharpe, therefore the 
name of S. plumbea given to it by Mr. Gould holds good for the 
West Australian species. 
