62 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



Leggeornis elegans. 



Only one party of Red- winged Wrens was seen in the 

 south-west, viz, at Augusta, on G April, 1919, with one 

 fuU-plumaged male. None were observed on the Warren 

 River, where in 1910 I saw a good many. Mr. Higliam 

 obtained some specimens in May 1919 at Gingin, about 

 thirty miles north of Perth. 



Leggeornis pulcherrimus Stirling!. 



Although a good look-out was kept for South-western 

 Blue-ljreasted Wrens, only one party of five was seen, in 

 sand-plain scrub, thirty miles east of Broome Hill. They 

 were in full moult. 



Stipiturus malachurns wester nensis. 



Westralian Emu-Wrens were common about Augusta and 

 Cape Leeuwin, 1916-19. 



Stipiturus melachurus media. 



The type-specimen of this Emu- Wren was obtained by 

 me a few miles east of Gnowangerup (thirty miles south- 

 east of Broome Hill) on 12 February, 1919 (vide Mathews, 

 Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1919, p. 45). Several small parties of these 

 birds, from three to six in number, were seen in scrubby 

 sand-plain country, which is practically always dry, and 

 devoid of any surface water. In general plumage this 

 subspecies is lighter in colour than Stipiturus m. loesternensis, 

 and distinctly smaller in size. It comes midway between 

 that bird and -S'. m. hartoc/i, and is a good subspecies. The 

 habits of all three are similar. On 26 July, 1908, I shot a 

 similar bird on a sand plain a few miles east of Broome 

 Hill, but never saw any other there. 



Although the Stirling Ranges are only about twenty miles 

 distant to the south of where the type was secured, Whitlock 

 does not record having seen any Emu-Wrens there in his 

 1911 expedition (see ' Emu,' vol. xi.), and Milligan in his 

 account of his trip there in 1902 ('Emu,' vol. iii.) only 

 records having seen one bird, that was not secured. 



