Part 65

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=314 Magpie-Lark=, Murray (Little) Magpie (e), Mudlark (e), Soldiers, Peewee (e), Peewit (e), Pugwall, Grallina picata, A., T. (acc).

Stat. v.c. (near water) open, timber 10.5

Black and white; slender stilt-like legs; throat white (f.), black (m.); mud nest. Insects, pond-snails. "Pee-wee."

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=315* Gray Shrike-Thrush= (Harmonious), Gray (Native) Thrush, Pluff, Mourner, Colluricincla harmonica, E.A., S.A.

Stat. c. timber 9.5

Gray; back umber-brown; face whitish; under lighter: f., throat streaked dusky. Insects. Powerful swelling harmonious note.

F. 133. Aerocharidae, 1 sp. E. (Madagascar).

F. 134. LANIIDAE (42), SHRIKES, 313 sp.--134(132)A., 36(22)O., 33(10)P., 140(127)E., 6(6)Nc., 1(1)Nl.

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=316 Black-backed Magpie=, Piping Crow-Shrike (Varied), Organ (Flute) Bird, Singing White Crow (e), Gymnorhina tibicen, E.A., S.A., W.A.

Stat, v.c. open 17

Black; hind-neck, upper under base tail, patch on wing white; f., grayish instead of white. Insects. "To describe the note of this bird is beyond the power of my pen." (Gould.) "Wonderfully modulated whistle ... unequalled among European birds." (Alfred Russel Wallace).

=317 White-backed Magpie= (Crow-Shrike), G. leuconota, N.S.W., V., S.A., C.A., W.A.

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Upper white, except head, tip-tail, wing-quills black; under black; f., back gray. Insects. Glorious carol, see 316.

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=318 Black-throated Butcher-Bird= (Crow-Shrike), Cracticus nigrigularis, A. exc. N. Ter.

Stat. v.r. timber 13.5

Head, neck, chest black; hind-neck, centre-wing, rump, under white; tail black, side tipped white; f., sim. Insects, mice. One of the best of songsters, rich notes.

=319* Australian Butcher-Bird= (Shrike), Collared Crow-Shrike, Derwent (Tasmanian, Whistling) Jackass, Durbaner, C. destructor, E.A., S.A., W.A.

Stat. v.c. timber 11.2

Head, neck black; back gray; side hind-neck, upper base tail, patch on wing white; under grayish-white; f., duller. Insects, mice, birds. Fine song (autumn); rich notes.

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=320* Yellow-breasted Shrike-Tit= (Yellow-bellied, Frontal, Crested), Falcon-Shrike, Falcunculus frontatus, E.A., S.A.

Stat. r. timber 7.5

Upper green; crest, throat, line through eye black; patch above eye, patch below eye white; under bright-yellow; strong hooked bill; f., throat green. Insects. Musical notes.