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dark, and camped. Next morning I had my breakfast 

 before dayliglit, and getting in the horses, by 7 A.M. tlrove 

 back to where I had seen the bird the previous afternoon, 

 and spent nearly all day there, beating through and through 

 the spinifex, with intervals of watching. One of the birds 

 was twice flushed in dirt'erent places (or it might have been 

 the same one), but although I carefully pulled all the 

 spinifex to pieces near where I had seen them, no nest was 

 discovered. 1 did not shoot at the birds, as I hoped to find 

 a nest through their movements. The only result after all 

 my work, was to discover that the right hammer of my '410 

 gun had been hopelessly lost through the screw working 

 loose and falling off when I was tapping the spinifex 

 bunches with the barrel, which was not a good thing 

 to do. 



When I reached Minilya Station I made a new hammer 

 from a piece of quarter- inch flat iron, cut to shape, that 

 acted quite well for the rest of the trij), and I have it 

 yet. 1 shall always think that my enforced stay of three 

 weeks at Point (Jloates lighthouse was the cause of my not 

 bein" the first to discover the nest and eggs of Eremiornis. 

 but Mr. Whitlock well earned that distinction by his 

 untiring efforts. 



Acanthiza pusilla apicalis. 



Broad-tailed Tits were common in all south-western 

 districts, and especially so in the vicinity of Broome Hill 

 and Lake Muir. 



Acanthiza inornata masters!. 



South-western Plain-coloured Tits were common in the 

 south-western area, and especially in the more heavily 

 timbered districts, as Lake Muir, Warren River, Collie, 

 and Blackwood. They do not seem to occur about 

 Broome Hill. 



Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni. 



The type of the Carnarvon Tit (Mathews, ' Austral Avian 

 Record,' vol.ii. 1913, p. 76) was obtained by me on 13 August, 



