Vol. IX. 



1909 



1 Mathews, On the Birds of North-West Australia. 1^ 



Iris dark brown ; feet and legs leaden-grey ; bill dark brown, 

 basal half of lower mandible and corner of mouth yellow. 



The stomach contained a few small insects and some 

 vegetable matter which looked like the petals of white flowers, 



Ptilotis flavescens (Yellow-tinted Honey-eater). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 788. 

 Three adult males and two females. Parry's Creek, 30/9/08. 

 Eyes brown ; feet light brown ; bill blackish-brown. 

 The stomach contained a few small insects. 



Ptilotis unicolor (White-gaped Honey-eater). 



Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 795. 



Two adult males and three females. Parry's Creek, 12/10/08. 



Eyes grey ; feet and tarsi olive-brown ; bill black ; corner of 

 mouth creamy-white. 



The stomach contained pieces of flesh and seeds of the small 

 black native fig and other fruit. 



Very common. 



Entomyza ALBIPENNIS (White-quilled Honey-eater). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 815. 



Two adult males and one female. Parry's Creek. 



Eyes pale yellow, bare skin above the eyes light blue, below 

 very dark blue ; feet and tarsi olive-brown ; bill black, base blue- 

 grey, corner of mouth dark blue. 



The stomach contained a few beetles and a quantity of flesh 

 and seeds of the fig. 



Tropidorhynchus argenticeps (Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 816. 



Four males and one female. Parry's Creek, November, 1908. 



Iris, male red, female greyish-brown ; feet brown, tarsi olive- 

 brown ; bill and sides of head black. 



The stomach contained fragments of cockroaches, cockchafers, 

 beetles, and insects, and fig seeds. 



Mirafra milligani (Pale Bush-Lark). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 825. 



Four adult females. Parry's Creek, 15/10/08. 



Eyes brown ; feet and tarsi fleshy-grey ; bill brown, lower 

 mandible yellowish-white, tip brown. 



The stomachs of all contained grass seeds, beetles, and some 

 fresh-water mussel shell and grit. 



Common on grassy plains. 



Stictoptera annulosa (Black-ringed Finch). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 833. 

 Two adult males. Parry's Creek, 15/10/08. 



