%!;"■] Stray Feathers. 99 



about ro feet from the ground, and had placed the structure 



amid thick foliage, so as to be practically invisible. Mounting 



on to my friend's broad shoulders, I was enabled to make a close 



inspection, and found the principal material to be, as usual, fine 



rootlets, the top edge of twigs bound with cobweb ; the lining 



was of grass, rootlets, and fine bark. — H. Stuart Dove. 



Launceston, 19 5/07. 



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Some Birds Occurring in Areas 8 and 9 of Aus- 

 tralia, NOT GIVEN IN HaLL'S " KEY " (SECOND EDITION). 

 — Some time since I received a copy of Mr. R. Hall's second 

 edition of " Key to the Birds of Australia." The idea of giving 

 the meanings and derivations of the various species and genera 

 is an excellent one, interesting and instructive, but it was 

 unfortunate, when Mr. Hall was bringing out a new edition, he 

 did not give more attention to the distribution of species. Of 

 course there can be no hard and fast boundary lines of any of 

 the areas into which Australia is ornithologically divided on 

 paper for convenience, but still the following list of species (to 

 which I called Mr. Hall's attention soon after the publication of 

 the first edition of his " Key ") shows that the working out of 

 the distribution of them has been very imperfectly done, at any 

 rate for areas 8 and 9, and the list may prove of interest and use 

 to other ornithologists. I know that Mr. Hall considers that the 

 North-West Cape region should be included in area 9, but I 

 maintain that it ornithologically forms part of area 8. For one 

 reason, out of the enclosed list of 56 species 42 of them rarely 

 occur as far south as Geraldton, leaving only 14 that appear to 

 occur generally through S.W. Australia. Mr. Hall seems to be 

 rather confused in his descriptions of the various PacJiycepluila — 

 e.g., he describes Pacliycephala gilberti as possessing a " black 

 pectoral collar." This bird is not uncommon about Katanning 

 and Broome Hill, but apparently Mr. Hall did not procure any 

 specimens when he was in this vicinity in 1899. 



List of birds observed and identified by me which are not 

 marked in Mr. Hall's " Key " as occurring in area 9. Those 

 marked with an asterisk are not marked in Mr. Hall's " Key " 

 as occurring in either area 8 or 9 : — 



Observed 

 4. Haliastur girrenera . . Gascoyne River (o N.W. Cape 



26. Accipitet cirrhocephalus . . Albany to N.W. Cape 

 44. Corvus coronoides . . . . Albany to N.W. Cape 



84. Lalage tricolor . . . . Albany to N.W. Cape 



122. Malurus leucopterus .. N.W. Cape region 



175. Stipiturus ruftceps . . N.W. Cape 



*i95. Acanthiza uropygialis . . N.W. Cape 



229. Pomalorhinus rubeculus . . Minilya River 



230. Cinclorhamphus cruralis . . Broome Hill to N.W. Cape 

 *242. Sphenostoma cristatum . . Gascoyne River to N.W. Cape 



248. Cracticus nigvigularis . . Mingenew to N.W. Cape 



