AO Stone, Eggs and Nesting-place of Strix Candida. [2nd"j"ily 



ness they reached me in perfect condition on 21st May, 1917, and 

 are now in my collection. The particulars are as follows : — 



Set of six eggs found by Mr. Fredk. L. Berney at Torilla, 80 miles 

 north-west of Rockhampton, Queensland ; date, 19th March, 

 1917. Incubation, -^. Colour, pure white. Surface, slightly 

 glossy. Texture. — Finely pitted, with limy nodules irregularly 

 distributed, being much thicker over the basal and zonal portions. 

 Shape, slightly ovate. 



Measurements in millimetres : — (i) 32 x 44, (2) 32 x 43, (3) 

 31 X 44, (4) 33 X 43, (5) 32 X 42, (6) 33 X 44, averaging 32-I x 43I. 



No. 4 has the fewest limy nodules, and under the lens shows 

 several scratches in the apical portion. No. 5 is the most 

 spherical. No. 6 is somewhat nest-stained, and has several slight 

 longitudinal creases up to 25 mm. in length. 



Mr. Berney states : — " The eggs were laid on such grass as 

 was trodden down by the Owls moving about under a clump of 

 big, coarse grass about 4 feet high, situated on half an acre of dry 

 land surrounded by swamp and marsh. Under this grass the 

 Owls had trodden between the tussocks of grass a labyrinth of 

 winding passages or runs, at the end of one of which were placed 

 the six eggs. There is no doubt about the identification. The 

 two old birds were at the nest when it was found." 



Procellariiformes in Western Australia. 



By W. B. Alexander, M.A.. R.A.O.U. 



On 13th May, 1916, four days after a strong westerly storm, I 

 found on the beach at Cottesloe a specimen of the Fleshy-footed 

 Petrel {Hemipuffinus c. carneipes, Gld.) This bird had previously 

 only been recorded from the south coast of Western Australia, 

 between the Recherche Archipelago and Cape Leeuwin, so that 

 the present record extends the range of the species some 200 miles 

 northwards on the west coast. The specimen was too far gone 

 for preservation, but the skull is now in the Western Australian 

 Museum. 



On a voyage from Fremantle to Melbourne in July, 1916, I 

 made the following observations on birds of this group : — On 

 the 15th we were off Cape Leeuwin, coming eastward, at about 

 8 a.m. ; by 10 o'clock we were already being followed by about 

 30 individuals of Thalassarche melanophrys, amongst which were 

 a few Nealbatrus chlororhynchus. At 11 the former were even 

 more numerous, while the latter had completely disappeared. 

 At 12.30 the first Diomedea exulans made its appearance, together 

 with a pair of Phcebetria fusca. At 3.45 p.m. a single Nealbatrus 

 chlororhynchus was observed, and this was the last seen on the 

 voyagg. All the way across the Bight Thalassarche melanophrys 

 was the predominant species. Usually one or two Diomedea 

 exulans were in sight, and in the western part of the Bight 



