^'^'hi'^^ 1 Sh UFELOT, Os/eo/o(?y o/ Orlhorhiunphus magniyostris. 25 



Fig. 18. — Superior view of the skull of GLdicnemus hisiriaius ; man- 

 dible cvrliculaled. (No. 90,996, Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.) This 

 skull was apparently obtained from a discarded skin, as 

 the entire occipital and basilar portions have been cut out 

 and thrown away. 



Fig. i(>. — Superior view of the skull of Rissa iridactyiu ; mandible 

 removed. (No. 18,169, Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.) 



New Records for South-Western Australia. 



By W. B. Alexander, M.A., Keei^ek ov J^ioi.ocv. Western 

 Australian Museum, Perth. 



On tlu' retirement of Mr. B. H. Woodward, Director of the 

 Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, the collection of 

 birds has come into my charge. In the course of re-aiTangement 

 and revision of names, which I have been undertaking during the 

 last few weeks, I have discovered that there are specimens of 

 several species in the collection which had not previotisly been 

 recorded from south-west Austraha. I have only carried the 

 process of revision as far as the latest part of Mr. Gregory M. 

 Mathews' " Birds of Australia " goes, but propose to continue 

 as each part of that work appears. 



Porzana fluminea (Goitld). Australian Spotted Crake. 



The "Official Check-list" gives Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, South Australia, and Tasinania as habitat. Mr. 

 Mathews has separated the South Australian bird under the sub- 

 specific name of whitei {Austral Avian Record, vol. i., p. 73), 

 characterized by being " much lighter grey on the under surface." 

 The examples before me, a male and a young bird only partly 

 fledged, were collected at Herdsman's Lake, near Perth, by Mr. 

 Ostle. in January, igoi. The male appears to agree in every 

 respect witli Use description given in Mathews' "Birds of 

 Australia," vol. i., p. 212, but its breast is considerably darker 

 grey than that of the speciinen shown in the accompanying figure, 

 which is a " male, collected near Adelaide, South Australia." 

 I conclude, therefore, that the Western Australian bird agrees 

 with P. f. -fluminea, and not with P. /. whitei, as might have been 

 anticipated. I have, however, no skins from the eastern States 

 with which to compare it. 



Diomedea chlororhynchus ((imelin). Yellow-nosed Albatross. 



Ihere is a s])ecimen of this bird in the Museum which was 

 obtained at Cottesloe Beach, near Fremantle, by Mrs. Campbell, 

 in 1901. The species is not infrequent off the coast in winter, 

 especially off Albany, and the Check-list inentions the seas of 

 W. and N.W. Australia as included in the range of the bird. The 

 following quotation from Mathews' " Birds of Austraha," vol. ii., 

 p. 282, suggests that no otlier specimen of this bird from Western 



