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." [Page 149] 10 10 =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. 5 5 =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. Stat. v.c. _open_ 18 Upper white, except head, tip-tail, wing-quills black; under black; f., back gray. Insects. Glorious carol, see 316. 8 11 =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. [Page 150] [Illustration: [320] [321] [322] [323] [324]] 3 3 =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. 1 1 =321* Crested Bell-Bird=, _Oreoica cristata_, A. Stat. c. _timber_ 9 Upper brown; top of head black, side-head gray; white on face, throat; black from eye to black chest band; abdomen white tinged sandy-buff; f., duller. Caterpillars, insects. Bell notes, ventriloquist. 20 88