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62. Hall on Birds from Kalgoorlie, W. A. 



[Notes on a Collection of Bird-skins from Kalgoorlie, W. A. By 

 Robert Hall. Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia, 1900, p. 24.] 



This is a list, with notes, of a collection of birds made by 

 Mr. Lindsay Cameron at Kalgoorlie, one of the new gold- 

 districts in the interior desert of Western Australia. Thirty- 

 three species were represented in the collection, and ten 

 others well-known were noted in addition by Mr. Cameron. 

 A Xerophila " does not agree with any known species.''' See 

 Vict. Nat. xvi. no 2. 



63. Hartert on the Birds of Bum. 



[The Birds of Bum, being a List of Collections made on that Island 

 by Messrs. Boherty and Bunias. By Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. vii. 

 p". 226.] 



The specimens in the Tring Museum collected in Burn, 

 near Kayeli, by Doherty, and by Dumas (sent there by 

 Mr. Everett) on Mount Mada at an elevation of about 3000 ft., 

 are referred to 64 species. Among those from the latter 

 locality are a number related to Malayan forms, which were 

 not previously known to extend into the Moluccan area. 



The following species and subspecies are described as 

 new : — 



Strix cayelii, Prioniturus mada, Eudynamis cyanocephala 

 everetti, E. orientalis sahadorii, Microeca addita, Zosterops 

 obstinatus, Androphilus disturbuns, and Reinwardtoena rein., 

 wardti albida. Erythromyias buruensis and Geocichla dumasi 

 are figured. 



6i. Hartert on some Palaarctic Birds. 



[Some Miscellaneous Notes on Palsearctic Birds. By Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. vii. p. 525.] 



Mr. Hartert thinks it " necessary to treat Cert hia familiar is 

 and C. brachydactyla as two species.^' He also makes a new 

 subspecies of the British Nuthatch as Sitta europcea britan- 

 nica, recognising 4 subspecies in all. Of Dendrocopus major 

 he proposes to acknowledge no less than 13 subspecies^ 



