Vol. XX 



Royal Australasian Oytiitliologisls' Union. 



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Wren was found on the hills (lose lo Perth, occupying sheltered 

 gullies, iind also at deraldton on scrub-covered sand-hills. 



Chestnut-backed (iround-Bird {Cinclosoma castanotum). — One 

 bird was found nesting at Ooldea, just on the edge of the Xullarl)or 

 Plain. Two roundish, darkly-marked eggs were placed in a 

 bark-and-stick nest, neatly made, under a small blue-bush. The 

 birds were \vr\ shv, left the nest like a flash, and disappeared in 

 the bushes ; they could not be flushed again. 



Nest of (iround-fjird umier a Bluu-biish. 



rilOTO. BY \. S. LK SoUEF, U.A.O.f. 



Red-winged Wren-Warbler {Maliinis clcj^ans). —Knivd in deep 

 gullies on the Porongorups. 



Purple-backed \^'ren-^^'arl)ler {Mai urns ussniiilis]. -'\'h\^ spi'cies 

 was very numerous in some scrub-land bordering the (rrecnough 

 River, near Geraldton, and also in the scrub on the sand-hills 

 at Ooldea. 



Black-backed Wren-Warl)lcr [Malnnis iiu-hn!(>his).—Thc Black- 

 backed Wren was numi-rou> in the more open co\mtr\- round 

 Ooldea. 



Masked Wood-Swallow {Arlmiiiis pcr$oiiaius).~ A flock of about 

 lou of these birds was noted near Ooldea. They were feeding 



