from Western Australia. 135 



slightest. Skill A is as like a Victorian skin dated 17.7.96 

 (1-2 years old) as those of any two birds from localities 

 so far apart can be*. This induces me to consider the 

 "western species as identical with the eastern, and in support 

 of my view I may adduce the following points : — 



Dr. Sharpe, in the Biit. Mus. Cat., has left the question 

 open, because the key given for B. preissi is in the main the 

 same as that for R. pe/ze/ni of Norfolk Island. Mr. Gould 

 called the former a species on the authority of Dr. Cabanis ; 

 and Dr. Sharpe, I believe, had a bird in the Museum (Gray^s 

 Hand-list, p. 331, 1869) which did not convince him that 

 the species was valid, although he did not make a synonym 

 of the name on account of the doubt attaching to it. 



Eggs found last season south-east of the Stirling Range 

 may be described as resembling those of the eastern form. 



16. SisuRA iNQUiETA. Rcstlcss Flycatchcr. (HalFs Key, 

 p. 19.) 



An adult skin secured upon the banks of the Denmark 

 River (2.10.99) has its chest pure white and the primaries 

 blue-black, in keeping with the secondaries. 



17. AcANTHizA iNORNATA. Plaiu-colourcd Tit. (Hall's 

 Key, p. 25.) 



Two adult specimens were secured between Albany and the 

 Denmark River on the 5th and 7th of November. 



18. AcANTHizA APiCALis. Broad-tailcd Tit. (HalFs Key, 



p. 25.) 



A Ad 2 "^ 



,,' Aj' / ^Denmark. 3.11.99. 



B. Ad. (^. j 



r Ad ^ 



D Al I ^^^ ^^^' Albany. 30.9.99. 



* While age intensifies the black of the collar beneath the throat, it 

 also makes the contrast clearer between this collar and the tawny chest 

 of the perfectly mature eastern bird. As to the West-Australian bird 

 having more white on the terminal half of the tail, I can only say that 

 its tail must be nearly all white if it has more of that colour than is shown 

 in one of my skins (3.8.96, Victoria). I consider this diflerence as merely 

 a matter of age, and that Gould's record needs his specimens to support 

 it (see his 'Handbook,' i. p. 246). 



