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Point Cloates and Carnarvon, respectively. Other nests 

 examined between 24 August and 16 September contained 

 young birds. 



Aurephthianura aurifrons flavescens. 



Western Orange-lironted (Jhats were scarce about Car- 

 narvon and t'artlier north in 1911, but not uncommon on 

 salt-marshes and samphire-fiats in August and Septemljer, 

 l'.)13 and 191(J. Recently fledged young were seen on 

 Maud's Landing salt-marsh on 21 August, 1916. 



Conopoderas australis gouldi. 



Lono-billed Keed- Warblers were not so plentiful in 

 January 1916 and March 1919- at the large freshwater 

 swamps adjoining Lake Muir as I had found them on 

 previous visits ; but when leaving there on 22 March, 1919, 

 Mr. Higliam and myself found a small reedy swamp, near 

 the south end of the Lake, where Beed-Warblers and Grass- 

 birds abounded, and we obtained specimens of both. 



Poodytes gramineus thomasi. 



Dark Grass-birds were common on the edges of the 

 freshwater swamps at Lake Muir in December 1911, but 

 scarce when I was there in January 1916. On my next 

 visit, in March 1919, they were fairly common, and almn- 

 dant at the swamp mentioned above. A female shot there 

 on 22 March appeared to have been recently breeding. 

 One of these birds, obtained at Augusta on 7 April, had 

 the underparts tawny yellow, where it is whitish on the 

 series of skins I have obtained at Lake Muir and Albany. 



Eremiornis carter! carter!. 



When at the Yardie Creek, from 26 August to 5 Septem- 

 ber, 1913, I failed to see any Desert-birds, and had the 

 same bad luck when there again for six days in mid-July, 

 1916 ; so I left there on '2o July, and drove slowly north, 

 carefully searching any patches of large Buck Spinifex 

 {Triodia) on my way, but without any result until the 29th, 

 when I was camped with two aborigines who had joined me, 



