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any fresh water, where there were usually numbers of this 

 handsome Duck. On one occasion I shot and skinned a 

 young male that had no green on the head and neck, but 

 hud the rich chocolate-brown on the breast, and I shot and 

 dissected an undoubted female that had a most pronounced 

 glossy green head and neck and red-brown breast. In my 

 paper " Exploration of North-West Cape/' ' Emu,' ii. p. 81, 

 line 13, the word not was unfortunately printed instead of 

 most, through a printer's error. 



41. Eupodotis australis (J. E. Gray). 



Mr. Shortridge states that " the Australian Bustard is 

 less abundant in the S.W.and docs not extend to the coast." 

 It certainly occurs regularly within a mile or two of the 

 coast from a few miles northof the Swan River to the N.W. 

 Cape. At Point Cloates I. have often seen it on the beach. 



42. BURHINUS GilALLARJUS (Lath.). 



Mr. Shortridge states that " the Southern Stone-Plover is 

 known as the 'wheelo' among the colonists." They usually 

 call it a Curlew. According to my experience, u wheelo " is 

 the aboriginal name. Most probably the Stone-Plover that 

 Mr. Shortridge saw about Carnarvon and Bernier Island was 

 Orthorhamphus magnirostris. 



43. Orthorhamphus magnirostris Yieill. 



This species occurred and bred regularly about the North- 

 West Cape, but I never observed it south of Point Cloates. 

 It would be interesting to record it outside the Tropics. 



44. Zonifer tricolor (Vieill.). 



Mr. Shortridge says " the Black-breasted Plover is a 

 regular migrant round ' Cape ' York." Probably he means 

 the town of York, which is about forty-five miles east of 

 Perth in West Australia. It is a "far cry" from there to 

 Cape York (roughly about 2200 miles). 



45. H^matopus longirostris Yieill. 



Mr. Shortridge remarks that this species appeared to be 

 " a less robust bird than H. fuiiginosus, as it was rarely 



