. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . III., p. 57, pi. XII. (1877). Adult male—General colour black, diglitlyt/losfi/ oil the upper parts ; bases of theprwiaries tvliite ; basal portion and tips oftlie tail feathers and the under tail-coverts,white; bill and feet black: iris yellow. Totallength in thefesh 19 incites, ivimj 10-3, tail 8,bill ..4, tarsus 31. Adult fem.\le—Similar in plnniaije to tliemale, but smaller. Distribution. — Queensland, New SouthWales, \ictoria. Lord Howe Island. ^^HE Pied Crow Shrike or BlackMagpie as it is more commonlycalled,
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . III., p. 57, pi. XII. (1877). Adult male—General colour black, diglitlyt/losfi/ oil the upper parts ; bases of theprwiaries tvliite ; basal portion and tips oftlie tail feathers and the under tail-coverts,white; bill and feet black: iris yellow. Totallength in thefesh 19 incites, ivimj 10-3, tail 8,bill ..4, tarsus 31. Adult fem.\le—Similar in plnniaije to tliemale, but smaller. Distribution. — Queensland, New SouthWales, \ictoria. Lord Howe Island. ^^HE Pied Crow Shrike or BlackMagpie as it is more commonlycalled, is dispersed throughout the coastaldistricts and contiguous mountain ranges ofthe greater portion of Eastern Australia,and is also found on Lord Howe New South Wales it is abundantly dis-tributed over the Dividing Range, andalthough it occurs in the open forest-landsbeyond its western slopes, I have never metwith it far inland, or in the clumps of beltsof timber growing on the plains. In thePIED CROw-SHBiKE autunm I have observed it near Sydney in. STRKPEIiA. small flocks about Canterbury and lielniore, also about the highlands on the Milsons Pointrailway-line. On the Blue Mountains, and in tlie South Coast districts, it is exceedinglynumerous in June, July, and August, moving about in large flocks, numbering from fifty toseveral hundred indixiduals. The adult birds of this species vary in size, even, sometimes, when shot out of the sameflock, the males, which are larger, varying in wing-measurement from 97 to 10-4 inches, and thefemales from 9 to 9-4 inches; the same variations exist in the length and breadth of the bill;some I have seen with the upper mandible longer and slightly hooked at the tip. Specimens from Lord Howe Island, obtained by Messrs. Etheridge and party in 1SS7, andby Mr. E. H. Saunders in the same year, are similar to Australian examples. Among thoseprocured by Mr. Saunders on Lord Howe Island is one with the basal portion of the tail feather
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