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io Cape Leeuwin in March 1916. Some of their nests o£ 

 the previous year were examined in scrub between the 

 swamp and the beach ; the}' were made of fine grass and 

 fibre, and partly domed. Boys from the lighthouse quarters 

 said they found nests there every year. A few of these 

 birds were seen, and specimens obtained, on 25 March, 

 1919, in dense scrub below Karri Forest on the Warren 

 River. 



Taeniopygia castanotis wayensis. 



Chestnut-eared Finches were fairly common, for a short 

 time, about 14 October, 1911, at Broome Hill and to the 

 east of there. It was a very dry year. A specimen was 

 obtained by me at Lake Muir on 1 January, 1916, which 

 is the farthest south locality where I have seen this bird. 

 They were, as usual, abundant from Carnarvon, northwards, 

 on all visits there. Many nests contained eggs there on 

 7 September, 1911, and early September 1913 and 1916. 

 Mr. G. M. Mathews described the Dirk Hartog specimens 

 of this species, collected by me in 1916, as Ta'niopygia c. 

 hartogi subsp. nov. (^vide Bulletin B. 0. C. xl. 1920, p. 76). 



Emblema picta coongani. 



Painted Finches were seen in some numbers on parts of 

 the North- West Cape ranges. On 27 July, 1916, I saw a 

 flock of more than twenty in a deep gorge, and shortly 

 afterwards, at a water-hole high up on the ranges, there 

 were many of these birds engaged in drinking. Several 

 specimens were obtained there on different days, but none of 

 the birds wevQ breeding. When I was at Carnarvon in 1913 

 a bird-fancier, who specialized in Finches and had a large 

 aviary of them there, assured me that he had found occasional 

 nests of Emblema picta in the vicinity. 



Chlamydera maculata nova. 



The first specimen of the Cape Spotted Bower-bird was 

 obtained by me early in February 1892, and not 1902 as 

 stated in the 'Emu,' vol. iii. p. 37, and as that record may 



not be familiar to the readers of ' The Ibis,' I repeat the 



