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coverts ii^hilf, coiixpicuoniyly hnrrftl iritli Uack: ''In// hrujht rirmij/iun, l/a- //nne nf tlif iipjipr m.ai(dll)le 

 edged 'iritli ]iear/-yre.y: eye-Zax/i yreinisliblue: le<jf: yej/onnali-i/ri i/" (^(_iou\d). Tula/ lenytli l^-lj iiiclies, 

 tLHug 2':,', lai/ 1-9, liil/ V'5, laraiis 1. 



Adult fkmalk. — SimUdr in p/nmage to the m(de. 



Distiihution. — Western Australia. 



/T(£\II1*^ type of this species, obtained at Kin;; George Sound, Western Australia, was described 

 -L by <}uoy and Gaimard, under the name of Friiiij,illd oiiilata, in the " \'oyage of the 

 Astrolabe," in 1830; the late Mr. George Masters also procured specimens on behalf of the 

 Trustees, in i86q, in the same locality. Mr. Tom Carter has observed it for several years past 

 in the swamp lands in the vicinity of Albany, and Mr. Thos. Burns found it breeding in 1912 at 

 Cape Kiche. Gould,' quoting Gilbert, remarks: — "It is a solitary species, and is generally 

 found in the most retired spots in the thickets, where its mournful, slowly drawn out note only 

 serves to add to the loneliness of the place. Its powers of lli.nht, although sometimes rapid, 

 would seem to be feeble, as they are merely employed to remove it from tree to tree. The 

 natives of the mountain districts of Western Australia have a tradition that the first bird of this 

 species speared a dog and drank its blood, and thus obtained its red bill." 



From Broome 1 lill, South-western Australia, Mr. Tom Carter sent methe following notes: — 

 " Zonaginthus oculalus occurs in the coastal scrubs of South-western Australia, and I observed it 

 from Albany to Cape Naturaliste. It was fairly common about the coast hills at the Margaret 

 River, and seemed to frequent the dense scrub growing around the numerous springs that flow 

 from the limestone. On one occasion I shot one from a high limb of a Karri-tree, about one 

 mile from the beach, which seemed to be a very unusual situation for this species. It is to be 

 met with sparingly in the dense Paper-bark or Tea-tree (A/clnlcnca ) swamps on the south coast 

 of Western Australia, near Albany, but I ne\er found a nest with eggs, as I was not in the 

 vicinity at the breeding season, which appears to be the end of November or December. Early 

 in September, igo8, I found a nest of the previous year, which much resembled that of the 

 Chestnut-eared Finch (T<riiiopygi<i castiiiiotis), being a slightly-made domed structure, of fine 

 grasses, built about ten feet from the ground, in some tall scrub just outside the dense part of a 

 swamp. The Chestnut-eared Finch does not occur in that district. Visiting the same swamp 

 on the 5tli January, 1909, a pair of the Red-eared Finches were feeding fledged young birds. I 

 also noted yoimg fledglings being fed by parent birds early in January, 1905." 



Mr. Thos. P. Austin, of Cobborah Station, Cobbora, New South Wales, has a set of four 

 eggs in his collection, taken for him on the 28th September, 1912, by Mr. Thos. Burns, at Cape 

 Riche, Western Australia. The eggs, which were much incubated, are oval in form, pure white, 

 the shell being close-grained, smooth and lustreless. They measure : — Length (A) o'64 x 0^47 

 inches; (B) 0-63 x 0-49 inches; (C) o'67 x 0-47 inches ; (0)0-64 ^ 0-47 inches. 



Collocalia francica. 



UREY-RUMPEL) SWIFT. 

 C o/l oca/ ia francica. Giuel., Syst. Nat., torn II., p. 1017 (1788); Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. 

 XVI., p. .703, (181)2). 



Cypse/us terra-reginti', Ramsay, Proc. Zoul. Soc, 1S74, p. GOl. 

 Colloca/ia terra-reginii', Gould, Bds. New Gain,, Vol. IV., pi. .38, (1875). 



Adult male. — General cu/oiir ahore inclui/iny the forehead, croiru tiud sides of the head smoky- 

 liroivti; across the rumji a fiint greyis!i-u'hite bam!, a// the feathers having nnrroiv dark brown shaft- 

 lines; upper tuing-coverts smoky-brown, quills and tail-feathers blachisli-broicn nearly black, and all 



* Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 40S (1SO5). 



