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east,, with its larger bill, and the Bernier Island bird, on the west, 

 with the lighter chestnut shoulders, may both be picked out. 



Two fine Coongan River skins {assimilis) may be either Mathews's 

 mtingi or occidentalis. In any case, none of the assimilis type 

 possesses a blue breast, as indicated by that author's " vernaculars." 

 The throat and breast are always deep black. 



Poecilodryas pulverulentus (leucura). White-tailed Shrike-Robin. 



Birds collected by H. G. Barnard and myself at Cardwell, North 

 Queensland, appear similar to Northern Territory specimens, 

 from which Mathews's connedens, from the farther North-West, 

 are doubtfully separable. Two males F. L. Whitlock collected 

 at Cossack are probably not fully adult, the plumage being 

 slightly streaked or striated, especially on head and mantle. These 

 are no doubt Hartert's dnereiceps, which may be distinguished 

 from eastern and northern coast birds by their decidedly Hghter 

 colouring. 



Pachycephala lanioides. White-beUied Whistler. 



Whitlock's collection contained two males and a female of this 

 fine species from Cossack. The males appear similar to Gould's 

 figure of farther North- Western birds. But the female (like 

 those also from Port Hedland) is darker (browner), and has the 

 shaft-lines of the under surface more pronounced than, say, Roper 

 River (N.T.) specimens. It is presumed Mr. Mathews will accept 

 De Yis' sfretorum (although the description is not very satisfactory) 

 for the more eastern race should it be proved to differ from 

 lanioides. Except it be in the skinning. Roper River birds show 

 a greater-sized patch of black on the chest than do the Cossack 

 skins. 



Eimensions in mm., Cossack specimens, according to collector's 

 tabs : — 



(?. — Length, 183-200 ; wing, 96-98 ; tarsus, 26-30 ; culmen, 17-20. 

 9. — Length, 122 ; wing, 92 ; tarsus, 25 ; culmen, 20. 



Zosterops balstoni. Carnarvon White-eye. 



Three beautiful skins (^) from Barrow Island, apparently a 

 safe sub {balstoni, Grant). They are similar to skins from Port 

 Hedland and North-West Cape. Seemingly the Great Sandy 

 Desert divides balstoni from the true lutea in the farther North- 

 West (Kimberley). There is no difference between farther North- 

 West and Northern Territory (type localit}') specimens — both 

 lutea. That being so, how can Mathews sustain his two subs — 

 hecla and tribiilationis — for the farther North-West ? 



Cacatua sanguinea. Blood-stained Cockatoo. 



Female. An interesting skin obtained on an island of Dampier 

 Archipelago, 30 miles off the mainland. Wing, q\ inches, or an 

 inch less than Lake Way birds. The island bird is also cleaner 

 (whiter), and has the yellow parts of the plumage clearer lemon 

 colour. It would be worth while examining more material of 

 these island-breeding birds, 



