On Birds from PVestern Australia. 121 



Stilhopsar kenricki still seems to me to be distinct {cf. 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1899, p. 593). 



117. Spreo superbus. 



Spreo superbus (Riipp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 189 (1890) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 595 ; Hartert, App. 

 Afr. Sun, p. 312 ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 280. 



Nos. 616, 647 c?, 648 ? . Lake Baringo, March 1901. 



118. Lamprotoknis brevicauda. 



Lamprotornis brevicauda Sharpe ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 591 ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 281. 

 No. 644. ^ . Lake Baringo, March. 



119. Heterocorax capensis. 



Heterocorax capensis (Licht.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 239; 

 Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 587. 



Nos. 635, 636. S ? ad. Lake Baringo, March 22, 1901. 



VIII. — On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia. 

 By Robert Hall. 



The collection which is the subject of these notes was 

 formed by the writer between Albany and the Houtman^s 

 Abrolhos between Sept. 23rd and Nov. 8th, 1899. In it the 

 species represented number 69, the specimens 156. They 

 are from three types of country — the heavily timbered south- 

 west corner of the district, the flat region beyond, and the 

 Houtman^s Abrolhos. Although I did not travel on the south- 

 east of the Stirling Range, I secured a collection of eggs of 

 the birds resident in those parts which indicate the boundary 

 between the moist mountain-district and the lightly timbered 

 sandy lands to the eastward. 



The places of special interest to me were the country 

 between Albany and Denmark, some 40 miles west of the 

 former ; Katanning, 100 miles north of the same ; Geraldton, 

 300 miles above Perth; and the Houtraairs Abrolhos, some 

 40 miles off Geraldton. In Denmark I did not meet with 

 sufficient success to compensate me for some three days 



