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Brookton." The township of Brookton is about twenty 

 miles south of Beverley, and is about seventy-five miles 

 from the coast, Beverley being about seventy. Yet when 

 speaking of Meliornis longirostris he writes : " It occurs as 

 far inland as Beverley." 



The Graceful Honey-eater is one of the commonest species 

 round Broome Hill (which is about a hundred and twenty 

 miles south of Brookton), certainly by far the commonest 

 of the Honey-eaters. It also occurs plentifully forty miles 

 south of Broome Hill, and is to be found wherever the White 

 Gum {Eucalyptus redunca) grows. 



7. Ptilotis sonora Gould. 



This Honey-eater occurs plentifully, as far, at least, as 

 the North-West Cape, which is nearly three hundred miles 

 further north than the Gascoyne River (see ( Emu/ vol. iii. 

 p. 93). 



8. Certhionyx occtdentalis Grant. 

 Certhionyx occidentalis Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 658. 

 Without having seen the single skin upon which Mr. 



Ogilvie-Grant has founded this new species, it appears to 

 me that he has separated it from C. variegatus on very slight 

 grounds. The skin from the North-West Cape referred to by 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant as that of " A. G. Campbell " was collected 

 by me. Mr. Shortridge found the last-named species to be 

 rare round Carnarvon. In my notes on "■ Birds occurring 

 in the Region of the North-West Cape w (' Emu/ vol. iii. 

 p. 92) it is mentioned by me (under the name of Entomo- 

 phila leucomela) as being one of the commonest winter 

 visitors on the coast and inland, appearing as soon as the 

 winter rains commence. Perhaps it was a dry season when 

 Mr. Shortridge was on the Gascoyne River (for which 

 Carnarvon is the post-town). 



9. Glycyphila subocularis Gould. 



Neither Dr. Hartert nor Mr. A. J. North recognise this 

 as a good species. The Brown Honey-eater (Glycyphila 

 ocularis) occurs regularly at Broome Hill (eighty-five miles 



