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Whitlocka rufa rufa. 



Rufous Tree-( Creepers were coimnou about Broome Hill, 

 and also seen at Woolundra. 



Whitlocka rufa obscura. 



Allied Rufous Tree-l'reepers were observed, and specimens 

 obtained, at Lake Muir, tlie Warren, Blackwood, Margaret, 

 and Collie rivers. Tliey were all of tliis darker subspecies, 

 and confirm its validity. Tlie darkest coloured birds were 

 obtained on Big Brook, a tributary of the Warren River 

 from the east. 



Zosterops gouldi. 



Green-backed White-eyes were comraon through all the 

 districts visited. Small young were seen in a nest at 

 C-arnarvon on 4 August, 1911. These birds were feeding 

 freely on small orange-coloured berries from bushes near 

 the beach at Vasse in February 1916. 



Zosterops lutea balstoiii. 



Carnarvon White-eyes were common in the mangroves 

 near (-arnarvon in all my tri[)s, and some specimens shot 

 there on 17 September, 1011, were evidently breeding, but 

 I failed to find any nests. A few of these birds were seen 

 in mangroves near the North-West (/ape on 2 August, 1916. 

 None were seen in the mangroves of the Peron Peninsula, 

 in Shark Bay, that year. 



Austrodicaeum hirundinaceum tormenti. 



Western Mistletoe-birds were only seen on two occasions, 

 viz., a pair on the ranges near Point (Uoates on 11 July, 

 1916, and those already recorded (Ibis, 1917, p. 608) on 

 Dirk Hartog Island. Mathews (Ref. List, 1913) only gives 

 North-west Australia and Northern Territory as the range 

 of this bird. Milligan recorded it from the Wonoan Hills 

 (100 miles north-east from Perth), and Shortridge from 

 near Kalgoorlie, and I have seen them at several places 

 along the Midland Railway route. 



