THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 145 



scahra somewhat resembles <S'. Macalpinei in the upper sheath being 

 loose, broad, and embracing the base of the panicle, but it lacks 

 the peculiar colour and the long awns of the latter species, while 

 the sectional characters are quite different. 



The pecuHar colour and shining aspect of this new grass and 

 the fine and very long awns give this species a striking appear- 

 ance, and render it easy of recognition. 



Note on Stipa acrociliata. 



The branches of the panicle of Stipa acrociliata {vide Victorian 

 Natn.ralist, vol. xiii., p. 167), are always fasciculate, not verticil- 

 late, as given in the description of the grass. 



BIRDS NEW TO SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



In the zoo-geographical regions of this continent the colony of 

 Western Australia is divided into North-West (Derby), West, and 

 South-West, the last two being combined as one in Dr. Ramsay's 

 " Tabular List of Australian Birds." It is for this combined area 

 I wish to record the following additional species. Specimens of 

 the birds have been received by me among various parcels 

 collected and forwarded by Mr. Lindsay Cameron in the near 

 surroundings of Kalgoorlie. 



27. Cerchneis cenchroides, Vig. and Hors., Kestrel. — This bird 

 is found in the Derby and Central Australian regions. From 

 which region it has worked its way to here one cannot well say 

 without further evidence. 



108. Cracticus destructor, Temminck, Butcher Bird. — This 

 species is well known along Eastern Australia, South, and 

 sparingly in Central Australia. I received a nearly mature male 

 skin. 



440 A. Climacteris sttperciliosa, North, White-browed Tree- 

 creeper. — This species is a recent addition by the Horn expedi- 

 tion to Central Australia, discovered through Mr. G. A. Keartland 

 and described by Mr. A. J. North (Ibis, July, 1895). Both sexes 

 were sent to me, and now we find the distribution is from central 

 New South Wales across mid-Australia to Western Australia. 

 There are seasonal differences in the male from the two 

 described by Mr. North. Of some of the chest feathers the 

 lateral parts are washed with rufous, and from the genys to the 

 fore neck there is a line of dull white diffusing on both sides into 

 slaty-brown. In both sexes the dentate bar markings of the tail 

 feathers of my specimens present their apices towards the trunk, 

 in contradistinction to C. erythrops, as figured in Gould's folio 

 " Birds of Australia,'' vol. iv., plate 95. The male was collected 

 30/10/98, the female 24/11/98. 



461. Chalcococcyx basalis, Horsfield, Narrow-billed Bronze 



