680 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



was almost denuded of grass, and travelling along the coast 



was extremely hard upon the horses, owing to the loose dry 



sand and constant steep hills, also of sand. It was impossible 



to obtain any fresh animals, as I hoped to do, or any chaff or 



horse-feed, and as the forty odd miles between there and 



Point (Jloates was by far the worst and heaviest ])iece of road 



anywhere, I reluctantly gave up the idea of proceeding 



further north. So after resting the horses for ten days, 1 



proceeded inland for about fifty miles, camping one night at 



an artesian bore, where the overflow formed a considerable 



swamp, and from there worked back to the Minilya, getting 



some specimens daily; then after a few days at the Minilyn, 



waiting for the mail coach, I left by it for Carnarvon, and 



took a steamer for Fremantle iind the south on 30 September. 



On 3 August, 1913, I left Broome Hill to have another 



attempt for the North- West Cape, travelling by train to 



Greraldton, about five hundred and fifty miles. From there 



I sailed by steamer to Carnavon, arriving on 10 August; 



and after a few days spent in old haunts, I travelled by mail 



coach drawn by six camels to the Minilya River, and thence 



by mail buggy drawn by two camels to Point Cloates, on 



23 August. There I was so fortunate as to meet Mr. W. 



Bryan, an old pearler, who was starting the next day for the 



vicinity of the North-West Cape, in an open 16-foot boat, to 



try to get some dugong for their excellent meat and oil. 



He gave me and my " swag " a passage to the Yardie Creek 



{alias Jacob Remessen's River of the Dutch explorers of 



1620), while I undertook to show him the best channels 



through the many dangerous reefs, and also safe anchorage 



for his boat, as he did not know that coast.. He landed me 



at the mouth of the Yardie on 26 August to camp alone 



until he returned from further north in about ten days^ time. 



As this is the type locality where both Stvpiiurus malachunis 



rujiceps and Eremiornis were obtained by me in 1898, and 



both were fairly common until I left Point Cloates in 



1903, I hoped to find the nest and eggs of one or both of 



the birds. However, although I systematically searched the 



narrow flat between the ranges and the sea, and most of the 



