1 6 INIathews, On the Birds of Xorth-West Australia. [.^JfiTi 



Eyes dark red ; feet and tarsi leaden-blue ; bill pale leaden- 

 blue. 



The stomach contained some grass seeds and a little grit. 



They have a few notes, which are sung in an undertone when 

 the birds are perched in the bushes. It is hard to be sure of the 

 individual, as they stop when one approaches. At dusk one 

 night I saw five birds fly out of an old nest, which formed a 

 roosting-place. 



PoEPHILA PERSONATA (Masked Finch). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 844. 

 Adult male and female. Parry's Creek, 30/9/08. 

 Eyes red ; feet and tarsi red ; bill pale yellov/. 

 The stomach contained grass seeds, all husked. 



ORIOLUS SAGITTARIUS (Oriole). 



Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 850. 



One male and three females. Parry's Creek, 28th August, 

 1908, 



Iris orange-red ; feet leaden-blue; bill fleshy-brown. 

 Common in the dense growth along the creek. 



Oriulus flavicinctus (Yellow Oriole). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No, 851. 



Three males and one female. Parry's Creek, 28th August, 

 3rd September, 1908. 



Iris red ; feet leaden-blue ; bill fleshy-brown. 



Usually found in pairs along Parry's Creek in the dense 

 growth. 



Chlamydodera NUCHALIS (Great Bower-Bird). 

 Math., Handl. B. Austr., No. 863. 



Male without nuchal crest. Parry's Creek, November, 1908. 



Iris brown ; feet and tarsi olive-brown ; bill blackish-brown, 

 tip brown. 



The stomach contained some seeds and pulp of figs and 

 one beetle. 



Notes on the Magpie (Gymnorhina leuconota, GId.) * 



By Robert Hall, C.M.Z.S., Col. Mem. B.O.U. 



The following observations -f* have been made in the south-east 

 of the continent, and they relate to the species G. leuconota, 

 Gould, and what I take to be its variety or sub-species, G. 

 tibicen, Latham. In certain areas the sub-species is so fixed as 

 apparently to be a species ; in others the inter-breeding and the 

 specimens showing reversion are so common as to make them 



* See Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, vol. xiv. (New Series), Part i, pp. I to 9 (1901). 

 t With the assistance of Messrs. G. Gxaham and J, P. Eckert. 



