Collection of Birds from Western Australia. GG5 



Climacteris rufa Gould. 



Climacteris rufa Math. p. 88. 



a. ^ . King River, 4th Jan. 



^, c- [c?] [ ? ]. Arthur River, 1st July. 



d,e. c? [ ? ]• Crookerdine, 17th & 19th July, 



f. S ' Parker's Range, 8th Aug. 



g-i. c? et cJ imin. Kurrawang, 2nd Sept.-3rd Oct. 



k. ? [ (^ imm.]. Hawksnest, 10th Nov. 



/. [ ? .] Dale River, 19th Deo. 



There appears to have been a difficulty in ascertaining 

 the sex of some of these birds, two of the females having 

 been marked as males and several males as females. 



Iris dark brown or hazel ; bill dark brown in the adult, 

 of a slate-colour above, with the sides and base of a flesh- 

 colour, in the immature ; legs dark brown in the adult, of a 

 slate-colour in the immature. 



Total length, measured in the flesh, 7^8 inches, 



[The Rufous Tree-Creeper was plentiful throughout the 

 south-west and central divisions, extending inland as far as 

 Laverton — where, however, it was rare and confined to the 

 isolated strips of Eucalyptus along the water-courses. It is 

 represented by C. superciliosa in the Mulga country. — 

 G. C. S.] 



Climacteris superciliosa North. 

 Climacteris superciliosa Math. p. 89. 

 a-f S ? • Hawksnest, 2nd-12th Nov. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dark slaty. 

 Total length, measured in the flesh, G'O inches. 

 [The White-eyebrowed Tree-Creeper was fairly plentiful 

 around Laverton ; it frequented the Mulga scrub. — 



G. c. sr\ 



Two pairs of this rare Creeper were procured and are new 

 to the British Museum. It was originally described by 

 Mr. North (' Ibis,' 1895, p. 341) from specimens obtained by 

 the Horn Expedition at lllara Creek, Central Australia, but 

 appears to range over the greater part of Australia. The 

 figure of this species [Horn, Sc. Exp. Centr. Austr, pt. ii. 



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