606 Mr. T. Carter on the Birds of [Ibis, 



On 3 January, 1917, after having seen and chased a 

 Grass- Wren for seven consecutive days at the same locality 

 on the Peron, it (or another) was shot. It was always seen 

 in scrub from three to five feet high, and was exceedingly 

 wild, usually only a distant glimpse of it being seen. On 

 this particular day it was flushed in low scrub, and at 

 once it ran off at great speed ; I " chirped " with my 

 lips, and as the bird was running away it partially spread 

 and drooped its wings, and puffed out its feathers, until 

 it reached tiie shelter of a good-sized bush, below which 

 it was only partly visible. A shot was chanced through 

 intervening twigs, and it was killed. It was a male, with 

 enlarged testes. The general plumage was darker in 

 shade, and with rather bolder stripe-marks than birds from 

 Dirk Hartog. It measured in inches : — Total length 6"75 ; 

 wing 2*5 ; tail 3'5. 



The centre of abdomen was white, which marking was 

 not observed on any of the Dirk Hartog specimens. Unfor- 

 tunately this white mark is not very apparent on the skin. 



Austrartamus melanops tregellasi. 



A few pairs of this Wood-Swallow were seen on Dirk 

 Hartog Island on 30 April, 1916, and on many subsequent 

 dates during both visits. A nest containing two half-grown 

 young was noted about four feet above the ground in a 

 bush, 14 October, 1916. 



These birds were not observed on the Peron, but as the 

 species is usually a winter visitor in the Gascoyne and 

 raid-west districts, it had probably left the Peron before 

 I arrived there on 11 November, 1916. 



Mathews' 'List of the Birds of Australia,' 1913, gives the 

 range of this species as South-west Australia. This is mis- 

 leading, as it is essentially a mid-west bird, and has never 

 been observed by me anywhere south of the Swan River, 

 nor at Broome Hill. It is a species that likes open country, 

 and is not likely to occur in the prevailing forests of the 

 south-west, where its place is taken by the Wood-Swallow 

 [Pseudartamus cyanopterus). 



