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Two eggs, collected on October 11, 1903, are pale blue, 

 blotched with brown and with underlying spots of lilac- 

 grey. Measurements : axis 1*3 inch ; diameter 085. 



Two eggs, collected on October 2, 1903, are similar in 

 ground-colour, but with the brown spots larger and much 

 more pronounced. Axis 1*25-1*35 inch • diameter 0*9. 



[This bird is also resident, but not common; it is one of 

 the earliest breeders. The nest is built some fourteen to 

 eighteen feet from the ground in the dense forest. Five 

 eggs are a full clutch. — W. F.~\ 



XXIX. — Remarks on some Birds of Western Australia. 

 By Thomas Carter, M.B.O.U. 



I propose to make a few remarks upon Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's 

 paper on a collection of Birds from Western Australia 

 which was published in 'The Ibis' for 1909, p. 650, and 

 1910, p. 156. 



I may mention that I take a peculiar interest in this 

 collection, as in 1903 I went to England, intending to stay, 

 and took with me a collection of about five hundred bird- 

 skins from Western Australia. My doctor, however, advised 

 me not to risk remaining in England for the winter, so 

 I offered the collection to the authorities of the British 

 Museum, on their own terms ; but it was refused and went 

 to the Tring Museum. In the collection were skins of many 

 species now described as new by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. The 

 last time I saw the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in 1909, almost 

 the last words he said to me, and reiterated, were how much 

 he regretted that they had not taken my collection when it 

 was offered. 



1. Corvus coronoides Vig. & Horsf. 



The White-eyed Crow is very common from the Gascoyne 

 River to the North-West Cape. Some, shot by me at 

 various dates between December and April, had the irides 

 partly hazel and partly white, in the transition - stage 



