Voi.xvni. 



1919 



] Cauvbbll, Additions (0 '' H. L. White Collection. " 263 



The following is Mr. Carter's account (Ibis, 1917, p. 605) : — • 



" One specimen only of the Grass-Wren was procured on Peron 

 Peninsula, though it is believed that others were seen. When 

 a glimpse of a Calamanthiis is obtained as it goes at full speed on 

 the ground through scrub, it can easily be mistaken for a Grass- 

 Wren, as the Field-Wren {C alamanthus) has very long legs for its 

 size. 



" On 3rd January, 1917, after having seen and chased a Grass- 

 Wren for seven consecutive days at the same locality on the 

 Peron, it (or another) was shot. It was always seen in the scrub 

 from three to five feet high, and was exceedingly wild, usually 

 only a distant glimpse of it being seen. On this particular day 

 it was flushed in low scrub, and at once it ran off at great speed. 

 I ' chirped ' with my lips, and as the bird was running away it 

 partially spread and drooped its wings and puffed out its feathers 

 until it reached the shelter of a good-sized bush, below which it 

 was only partly visible. A shot was chanced through inter- 

 vening twigs, and it was killed. It was a male, with large testes. 

 The general plumage was darker in shade and with rather bolder 

 stripe-marks than birds from Dirk Hartog. The centre of the 

 abdomen was white, which marking was not observed on any of 

 the Dirk Hartog specimens." 



Dimensions in mm. — length 170, wing 65, tail 90. 



Whitlock's skin is not unlike Gould's plate (No. 28, vol. iii., 

 " Birds of Australia "), which is slightly richer and darker coloured, 

 and the skin, being a female, shows the chestnut-marked sides. 

 Dimensions in mm. — length 160, wing 60, tail 80, tarsus 26, 

 culmen 13. 



Mathews considers the Dirk Hartog bird is sub-specifically 

 separate, naming it carteri in the Austral Avian Record, iii., p. 87, 

 with a fine coloured plate. 



In view of the discovery of typical Amytornis textilis, it may be 

 interesting to review its distribution, as was done with A. striata 

 (see coloured plate and accompanying letterpress. Emu, ante, 

 p. 81). Gould claims to have observed the Textile Wren on the 

 plains bordering the Lower Namoi (New South Wales), where it 

 was very abundant ; but from his plate (above cited) it does not 

 appear that he figured the Eastern bird, which students will agree 

 is North's race, modesta* Therefore, the distribution in general 

 as given in the " Check-list " (p. 79) is correct — namely, textilis, 

 " W. and Central Australia " ; modesta, " New South Wales, S. 

 and Central Australia." 



Zosterops gouldi, Bonaparte. Grey-backed White-eye. 



Zosterops (lutea) balstoni, Grant. Carnarvon White-eye. 



One :3 and 2 ^Z of the former were obtained on Dirk Hartog, 

 while a similar number and sexes of this the more yellow 



*See also "Nests and Eggs" (North), i. , p. 250. And with which Mathews's 

 inexpectatus, habitat New South Wales, appears synonymous. 



