Collection of Birds from Western Australia. 157 



//, /'. $ vix ad. Kurrawang, 15th & 20th Sept. 



Iris dark brown; eyelid yellow (dull greenish-yellow in 

 the immature) ; bill of a dark horn-colour, greenish or 

 yellowish-brown below ; legs light brownish-yellow. 



Total length, measured in the flesh, 12 - 25-13'25 inches. 



[The Pallid Cuckoo was plentiful and migratory. — 

 G. C. £.] 



Merops ornatus (Lath.). 



Merops ornatus Math. p. 55. 



a—c. Ad. et <$ imm. Avon River, llth-18th Jan. 



d. 2 . Stockpool, 23rd Jan. 



e. cS . Southern Cross, Dec. 

 /. S • Carnarvon, 25th Aug. 



y-i. S ■ Clifton Downs, 21st Sept -11th Oct. 



Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs dull brownish-pink or 

 yellowish-brown. 



Total length, measured in the flesh, £ } 10*75 inches, 

 2 , 925. 



[The Australian Bee-eater is a migratory species which is 

 plentifully distributed throughout Western Australia. It 

 does not seem to extend so far south as Albany. Except 

 during the breeding-season, it is gregarious. — G. C. £.] 



Halcyon saxctus Vig. & Horsf. 



Halcyon sanctus Math. p. 54. 



Halcyon westralasianus Campbell, Emu, ii. p. 25 (1902) 

 (Vasse River) ; Math. p. 54. 



a-g. S ? imm. King River, 11th Jan.-8th Feb. 



h. 2 imm. Oyster Harbour, 27th Feb. 



i. 2 . Albany Harbour, 23rd March. 



k. Imm. Chockerup, 22nd Jan. 



/, m. 2 • Dale River, 18th Dec. & Jan. 



n. Imm. Avon River, Jan. 



Iris dark brown; bill black, base of the lower mandible 

 of a light horn-colour; legs of a dark pinkish horn-eolour. 



Total length, measured in the flesh, 8'25-9'0 inches. 



I have examined the type-specimen of H. westralasianus 

 Campbell, which was procured by Mr. Carter at the Vasse 



