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Cracticus nigrogularis kalgoorli. 



Western Black-throated Butcher-birds were breeding on 

 the Lyndon River on 5 September, 1911. They were rather 

 3onimon in May 1919 about Woolundra, which is probably 

 near their southern limit of ranoe. 



Bulestes torquatus leucopterus. 



White-winged Butcher-birds were common about Broome 

 Hill and south-western localities, excepting Augusta and the 

 Margaret River, where none were seen. Several of them 

 were observed at Woolundra, where the Black-throated 

 birds give them a bnd time, by constantly attacking them. 

 A specimen of the W^hite-winged was obtained by me on 

 13 September, 1916, about midway between the Gascoyne 

 and Minilya rivers, the first time this bird was ever seen 

 by me in that district. Shortridge does not mention having 

 seen this subspecies about the Gascoyne River in 1908 

 (Ibis, 1909, p. 669> 



Falcunculus frontatus leucogaster. 



White-bellied Shrike-Tits were commonly seen about 

 Broome Hill, especially early in 1919. Adult birds were 

 seen feeding recently fledged young on 4 March, 1919. 



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Oreoica gutturalis westralensis. 



Western Crested Bell-birds were exceedingly scarce about 

 Broome Hill in early 1919, where they are usually plentiful 

 at all seasons. They were, as usual, fairly common in the 

 Gascoyne and Minilya districts in 1911, 1913, and 1916. 



Aphelocephala castaneiventris minilya. 



Several small parties of Murchison Whitefaces were seen 

 in mid-September, 1916, in scrubby country midway between 

 the Lower Gascoyne and Minilya rivers, where I had never 

 previously seen anyof these birds ; but I had obtained speci- 

 mens in 1904 at Mullewa, three hundred miles to the south. 

 Shortridge found them " fairly numerous as far north as the 

 Upper Gascoyne River (Clifton Downs Station) " in 1908 

 (Ibis, 1909, p. 667) ; so, at present, the locality where my 



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