64 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



CoUnriciiicla rufiventris rufiventris. 



BufF-bellied Shrike-Thrushes were common about Broome 

 Hill and south-west localities. In the Gascoyne and Point 

 Cloates districts these birds are mostlv found in stony 

 ranges, and are common in all the gorges ot" the North- 

 West Cape ranges, where their song is quite different from 

 that of the southern birds. On 7 August, 1916, I found a 

 nest, four feet from the ground, in the fork of a small 

 white-gum tree, in a gorge near the North-West C^ape ; 

 it contained two young birds about half-grown, and the 

 male bird was sitting on them. 



Grallina cyanoleuca cyanoleuca. 



Magpie-Larks were more numerous about Broome Hill 

 than any other locality. They do not occur much in heavily . 

 timbered districts. When at Lake Muir in March 1919, 

 Mr. Muir asked me tlie name of a pair of these birds, which 

 were feeding near his homestead, as he said he had never 

 seen them before during his long residence there, and that 

 the birds had only recently arrived. 



Gymnorhina liypoleuca dorsalis. 



Western White-backed Magpies were noted in all districts 

 between Woolundra and Broome Hill, at which latter place 

 they are very abundant, but I think they are even more plen- 

 tiful about the Vasse River. They do not occur in the heavily 

 timl)ered south-western localities, but are gradually working 

 their way along there as the country is cleared and opened 

 out. None were sf>en at the Margaret River or Augusta, 

 and only odd birds at the C'ollie. On 1(5 January, 1910, 

 I saw fledged young being still fed by the parent birds at 

 Broome Hill ; and on 24 February, 1917, I saw a tame bird 

 of the previous year that was completely white in plumage, 

 with pale fleshy bill and legs. The irides were blue, with u 

 slight tinge of pink. It would be about five months old. 

 When at the Yasse River on 27 February, 1916, I saw these 

 Tvlagpies eating many figs off the trees at a homestead, and 

 also digging up with their beaks, and eating, freshly planted 

 grains of maize. 



