Igi?'] Dirk Hartoff Island and Perim Peninsula. 58?i 



each visit to the island, not a single bird was seen there. 

 On the second visit, a few of these Parrots were seen on 

 different occasions at a well about a mile from the beach on 

 a large open stony flat. They went there in order to drink 

 from the sheep-troughs. Half a mile distant from this well, 

 some clumps of the "We-arra" trees grew among otlicr 

 scrub. Small parties of three to five Rock- Parrots were 

 seen in these stunted trees on several dates in October, 1916. 

 They were evidently eating the hard seeds out of the long 

 pendent pods hanging in the branches, and were also feeding 

 on grass-seeds on the ground in the vicinity. Nearly all 

 these Parrots were in poor and ragged plumage, and showed 

 no signs of breeding either in May or Oetol)er-November. 

 Most probably the breeding-season is in July or August, 

 which is the time when most birds lay in mid-west West 

 Australia. 



When visiting Slope Island, about lifteen miles south- 

 west of Denham, on 16 Noveniber, 1916, we quite expected 

 to find Rock-Parrots^ eggs there, as the pearlers ail said tliis 

 was their main breeding-place in Shark Bay, but only two of 

 the birds were seen, arid they did not seem to be breeding. 

 A small flock of about ten of these Parrots, and some smaller 

 parties, were in the mangroves at the big lagoon on the 

 Peron on November 30, and on several occasions when 

 out with gun in the thickets near Denham, one or two pairs 

 or single birds were seen. Comparison of Shark Bay Rock- 

 Parrots with skins of the same species in the Perth Museum 

 from the sonth-west of West Australia, shows no appreciable 

 difference between them. 



Eurostopodus argus harterti. 



Although no Spotted Nightjars came under my own 

 observation, Mr. Lloyd, manager of Dirk Hartog Station, 

 had in his possession two undoubted eggs of this species, 

 which he said lie took from off the bare ground, under a bush, 

 on a rather stony ridge on the island, some years before my 

 visit. He saw the bird leave the eggs, and on more than one 

 occasion had flushed a Nightjar from the same ridge. 



