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and if it is a distinct species it appears remarkable that 

 Mr. Shortridge did not procure more specimens when he 

 was camped at 15ig drove (apparently for some time), as 

 that locality is on the mainland and barely three miles 1'roni 

 Rabbit Island. I myself have collected along- the mainland 

 coast opposite Rabbit Island on many occasions. 



14. Zostekops B ALSTON I Grant. 



Zosterops balstoni Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 663. 



The pair of skins referred to by .Mr. Ogilvie-Grant as 

 '• procured at North-West Cape, A. G. Campbell" were shot 

 by me, and apparently the bird I mentioned as Z. lutea 

 (' Emu/ vol. iii. p. 91) was Balston's White-eye. This 

 species usually occurs in the mangroves, but in the winter 

 months flocks of considerable size leave their shelter and 

 Feed on the scrubby coast sand-hills and more open country. 

 In February 1900, a male bird shot in the mangroves near 

 the North-West Cape was apparently breeding there. 

 Probably the nest and eggs, described in the 'Victorian 

 Naturalist/ vol. xviii. p. 31, as those of Zosterops lutea are 

 referable to Z. balstoni ('Emu/ vol. ii. p. 49). 



lu. Climacteris wellsi Grant. 



Climacteris wellsi Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 664. 



Although Tree-Creepers were never observed near Point 

 Cloates — there being no timber within a radius of thirty miles, 

 and very little there — l found an egg sixty miles inland 

 (south-east) from that place, which, being unknown to me, 

 was forwarded to Mr. A. J. Campbell for identification. He 

 replied that there was no doubt that it was that of a Tree- 

 Creeper, and asked me what species occurred in the locality. 

 The egg was placed in a small hollow in a stunted tree about 

 four feet from the ground, and seemed to have been forsaken 

 on account of rain-water having entered and lodged in the 

 nest. There is little doubt that it was an egg of C. ivellsi. 



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16. Neositta pileata (Gould). 



The Black-capped Tree-Runner was seen and secured by 

 me on several occasions about forty miles inland from Point 



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