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XXV. — On some Western Australian Birds collected between 

 the JVorth-West Ccipe and Albany (1)50 miles apart). 

 By Thomas (Urter, M.B.O.U., M.R.A.O.U. With 

 jS^omenclature and Remarks hi/ Gregory M. Mathews, 

 M.B.O.U., M.R.A.O.U. 



As the collections of bird-skins made b}' me in 1916-17 

 in some oE the south-west, mid-west, und north-west- 

 fireas of Western Australia, have ut last arrived in England, 

 after a long delay caused by the marine risks proA^ailing 

 during the last few years (see ' Ibis,' 1917, p. 587), 

 Mr. Mathews and J now publish notes and remarks on 

 birds obtained and observed in localities north and south 

 of Shark Bay during the above-mentioned visit, as well as 

 on two short trips that [ made to the Gascoyne and Point 

 Cloates districts in 1911 and 1913, and on a tour through the 

 south-west of Western Australia in 1919, from which I have 

 recently returned. The following itinerary may be interesting 

 as describing the varied means of transit used : — 



Left my station at Broome Hill in South-West Australia 

 30 July, 1911, hoping to revisit my original sheep-station at 

 Point Cloates and the North- West Cape peninsula, where I 

 had lived for thirteen years, and to search for the nests and 

 eggs of Stipifxrus malacJnirns riiflceps and Eremiornis carteri, 

 which at that date were undescribed. I travelled two hundred 

 and fitty miles by railway to Perth, then sailed by steamer six 

 hundred miles to Carnarvon, arriving on 5 August. Eleven 

 days were spent there searching through the mangroves and 

 coastal scrubs, and also the timber and scrub on the banks 

 and islands of the large Gascoyne River, which, as usual, 

 was not running at the time ; but there were some pools in its 

 wide sandy bed, and considerable bird-life around them. 

 Left Carnarvon IG August by five-horse mail coach, and 

 arrived at the Minilya River Station (eighty miles north) on 

 the 18th. There the late owner, Mr. Donahl McLeod, most 

 kindly lent me a pair of horses and buggy, and I f)roceeded 

 sixty miles north, reaching Maud's Landing on the 23rd. 

 Owing to a severe ilrought then prevailing the \\ iiole couiitrv 



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