Collection of Birds from Western Anstr alia, G85 



Rhipidura preissi (Cab.). 

 Rhipidura preissi Math. p. 65. 



a. Ad. King River, 7th Dec. 



b. Imm. Chockerup, 25th Jan. 



c-e. Ad. Big Grove, 8tli April-lst May. 



/. ? imm. Margaret River, 1st March. 



g. Ad. Carnarvon, 5th Aug. 



Iris dark brown ; bill and legs dusky black. 



The total length, measured in the flesli, varies from 

 6-6*25 inches. 



[Preiss's Fantail, also known to the Colonists as the Grey 

 Fantail, is abundant in tlie south-west, but in the north- 

 west it is not plentiful and does not extend inland. It is 

 somewhat similar in its habits to R. tricolor, but is not 

 terrestrial. It is extraordinarily tame. — G. C. S.~\ 



Rhipidura tricolor (Vieill.). 



Rhipidura tricolor Math. p. 66 ; Seth-Smith, Av. Mag. 

 (n. s.) vii. no. 7, pi. (1909). 



a-d. c? ? . Arthur River, 17th-28th June. 



e-h. c? ? . Kurrawang, 18th Sept.-lst Oct. 



i. (J. Laverton, 26th Oct. 



Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



The total length, measured in the flesh, varies from 8- 

 9 inches. 



[The Black -and -White Fantail is a very abundant 

 species, but, curiously enough, does not occur round 

 Albany, although it is numerous in the neighbourhood of 

 Busselton. 



It is an extraordinarily tame bird, and its habit of 

 attaching itself to populated districts makes it one of the 

 best known and most conspicuous of the smaller birds of 

 Western Australia. — G. C. S.'] 



Pseudogerygone culicivora (Gould). 



Pseudogerygone culicivora Math. p. 63. 



a, b. S . King River, 18th Dec. & 1st Jan. 



c. «?. cJ ? . Arthur River, 18th & 22nd June. 



