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least Point D'Entrecasteaux, to my own knowledge, and it is to 

 be hoped they may long continue to do so, but the constant burn- 

 ing off of the coastal scrub, and the increase of grazing stock, 

 must eventually drive them away. They also breed in numbers 

 on the south coast, east of Albany, and in the Ma'lock and other 

 scrub country north of that coast. Accompanying Mr. Milligan's 

 interesting ])aper in The Emu, vol. ii., p. 76, is a photo repro- 

 duction of himself standing at a Leipoa's nest near EHensbrook. 

 When I was in that district in 1919 I had proofs of this si>ecies 

 still breeding in several localities in the South-West corner of 

 Western Australia. Page 131. Both the Grey-rumi)ed Sandpiper 

 (Hcicractitis hrevipes) and the common Sandpiper (Actitis 

 hypolcurus) are regular visitors to the western coasts of Aus- 

 tralia, see my notes in llie Emu, vol. iii., p. 177; Ibis, 1920, 

 pp. 697-8; Alexander in The Emu, vol. xvi., p. 42, etc. 



The Red-winged W'ren-Warbler (Malurus elegans) occurs, to 

 my knowledge, at Gingin (about 150 miles south of Dongara), 

 and probably further north than that. It is a bird that likes the 

 neighbourhood of swamps. 



The Northern Yellow-banded Parrot (Barnardius occiden- 

 talis ) is a good sub-si)ecies. It is plentiful about Carnarvon, and 

 from there northwards to where the type was obtained. I fancy 

 Mr. A. J. Campbell had a note in The Emu some years ago 

 about the Geraldton form, but cannot trace it at present.* It 

 is interesting as one works north to find the Yellow-collared 

 Parrot {B. semitorquatiis) gradually merging into occidentalis. 



The sub-species, B. woohindra (Mathews' Bulletin B.O.C., 

 vol. xl., 1920, p. 44), collected by me in 1919, comes between 

 the above two forms. 



If Ptilotis geraldtonensis, the Geraldton Honeyeater, proves 

 to be a new species, it is exceedingly interesting. There seems 

 to be some confusion about the forms of Ptilotis (Meliphaga) 

 found in the Geraldton district. Milligan (The Emu, Vol. IV., 

 p. 152) gives the approximate southern range of Ptilotis carteri 

 as about Yandanooka, 75 miles south-east of Geraldton, and in 

 the same paper records Yellow- fronted Honeyeater (Ptilotis 

 plumnla) from near Day Dawn. Mr Milligan also has a note 

 in the same Emu, p. 51, on Ptilotis carteri. In the Ibis, 1902, p. 

 183, Mr. R. Hall gives details of three specimens of the Pallid 

 Honeyeater (Ptilotis leilavalensis) obtained at Geraldton. I 

 have never collected specimens in that district, but when at 

 Mullewa in 1904 I saw many of what appeared to me to be 

 Ptilotis carteri. 



Page 134. Was the White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus 

 superciliosus) observed at Geraldton, the larger S.W. form, 



* See " Nests and Eggs" (Campbell), p. 643— Eds. 



