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the winter months, when they are usually fairly common 

 there. 



Melanodryas cucullata westralensis. 



Western Hooded Robin? were seen in the Broome Hill 

 district, where they are fairly common, but do not seem to 

 occur in the heavily timbered areas to the south-west. 

 They were also noticed all along the North-West Cape 

 ranges. 



Smicrornis brevirostris occid en talis. 



Westralian Tree-Tits were abundant about Broome Hill 

 and Giiowangerup in February and March 1919, especially 

 in the thickets of dwarf eucalyptus (Maalock, Mallet, etc.). 



Etheloniis tenebrosa christopheri. 



Allied Dusky Fly-eaters, first obtained by me in the 

 mangroves at (.Carnarvon in September 1911 (cf. Mathews, 

 Nov. Zool. xviii. 1912, p. 311 ), were numerous then, and 

 also in September 1913 and June 1916 ; but between 

 the 18th and 27th of September in the latter year I only 

 saw one bird, which was a breeding male, and failed to 

 discover any nests. This is a very unobtrusive little bird, 

 and tame in disposition, going about in small parties, and 

 often in company with Zosterops lutea halstoni. Only one 

 was noticed in the large patch of mangroves near the 

 North-West Cape, where I spent four days early in August 

 191G. None were seen in the mangroves of Peron peninsula, 

 Shark Bay. 



Etheloniis fusca fusca. 



Western Fly-eaters were very plentiful in young eucalyptus 

 trees at Lake Muir in March 1919, and were seen in lesser 

 numbers in other south-west districts. 



Cluoyornis georgianus. 



Only two White-breasted Shrike-Robins were seen in the 

 course of the four visits to the south-west, viz., one near 

 Cape Leeuwin in March 1916, and one at the Warren River 



