1917-] Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula. 585 



twenty-five miles north of Dirk Hartog Station, Swallows 

 were there in hundreds, and in greater nural)ers than ever 

 previously seen by me. 



Cheramceca leucosternum leucosternum. 



Western Black-and-white Swallows were only observed 

 on the Peroa peninsula, where a few pairs were breeding in 

 low cliffs of congealed sand a little south of Denham and 

 also on sandy cliffs twelve miles north. 



Melanodryas cncnUata picata. 



A few pairs of Pied Robins were seen on Diik Hartog 

 Island and Peron peninsula. Fledged young were noted in 

 October on the island. 



Rhipidura flabellifera preissi. 



Western Fantails were not observed on Dirk Hartog 

 Island, but a few were seen in mangroves on the Peron. 



Leucocirca tricolor picata. 



Western Black-and-white Fantails were fairly commtni 

 both on Dirk Hartog and the Peron. At the large man- 

 grove lagoon on the Peron, on 24 November, 1916, a nest, 

 containing two almost full-grown young, was seen about 

 four feet off the ground, in a mangrove. 



Coracina novaehoUandiaB subpallida. 



A pair only of North-western Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrikes 

 was seen on Dirk Hartog Island, in " We-arra^' thicket in 

 April, 1916. 



Morganornis super ciliosus (subsp. ?). 



No White-browed Babblers were seen on Dirk Hartog 

 Island, and they do not seem to occur there, which is 

 remarkable, seeing how ubiquitous this species is through- 

 out the mid- west. Such a garrulous bird is not easily 

 overlooked. 



They occur on the Peron, but not commonly, and some 

 were seen, and sj)ecimens shot for identification, both there 

 and on Edel Land about fifteen miles south of the South 

 Passage. The birds obtained were larger and had bigger 



