Vol 

 1902 



^ 1 From Magaziiies^ Ss^c. I I 5 



The following is Mr. Milligan's technical description of the 

 new species : — " Head and neck, sides of face, chin, and throat 

 lamp black ; regularly and evenly striated with white silky 

 feathers ; faintly tinged on sides of face with faint chestnut 

 markings, more emphatic on chin and throat ; whole of back 

 and upper tail coverts very deep dull chestnut ; upper portion of 

 back showing black feathers and silky white stems ; lower 

 portion of back showing faint striation caused by light chestnut- 

 coloured stems ; tail lamp black ; tail feathers eight, terminat- 

 ing, excepting 6th and 8th, co-equally ; chest and abdomen 

 lamp black, the former distinctly striated with silky white, the 

 latter much fainter ; legs black ; wings, ist quill materially 

 shorter than 2nd, similarly and successively 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ; 

 5th, 6th, and remaining quills almost of equal length ; wings 

 black, upper coverts burnished and edged with chestnut, and 

 showing chestnut shafts. Under surface of wings blackish. 

 Total length, 8 inches; tail, 3^ inches; tarsus, i inch; 

 mandibles — from gape to point ^-inch, from forehead to point 

 ^-inch ; wing, 3 inches." 



The species new for the North-West are : — Chibia bracteata 

 (Drongo), Graucalus Jiypoleiicus (White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike), 

 Maluriis amabilis (Lovely Wren), Pardalotus melanocephalus 

 (Black-headed Pardalote), and Turnix olivu{0\i\Q Quail). 



As the first three have been recorded for the Northern Terri- 

 tory (of South Australia), it is only natural to find their habitat 

 extended to North-Western Australia, but it is an ornithological 

 surprise to find the Black-headed Pardalote of north-eastern 

 parts in the north-west. Regarding the Olive Quail very little 

 is known. The original specimen (described by the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild) was secured on the north-eastern coast. Those 

 observed by Dr. House in the north-west were in sandstone 

 country, in the neighbourhood of Charnley and Calder Rivers. 

 Only two or three birds were seen together. 



" On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia." This 

 somewhat technical article is contributed by Mr. Robert Hall to 

 The Ibis (January and July parts), a journal which, by the way, 

 is to be commended for the prominence it has hitherto given 

 to Australian ornithology. Any student who does not read The 

 Ibis is at once " out of the running." 



The collection, the subject of Mr. Hall's remarks, was obtained 

 by himself between Albany and the Houtman's Abrolhos, 

 from 23rd September to 8th November, 1899, and represents 

 69 species, numbering 156 specimens. To secure this collection 

 three classes of country were invaded — the heavily-timbered 

 tracts of the south-west, the flat region above them, and the 

 islets and shoals of the Abrolhos, some 50 miles off the coast. 

 Although the last-mentioned locality has been fairly well worked 



