686 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



Vancouver, "stopping otf'^ a few days at Banff, and being 

 " hung up " at Vancouver for seventeen days ; thence I 

 sailed 9 Deceni])er via Honolulu, Fiji, and Auckland to 

 Sydney, where the steamer and passengers were quarantined 

 for a week on account of the influenza epidemic, then raging 

 generally at all ports on the route. As the shipping strike 

 had stopped all coastal traffic, I went across Australia by the 

 Trans-Continental Railway to Perth, Western Australia, 

 arriving 21 January, l'J19. After completing my business, 

 I made a collecting tour of eight hundred miles throuoh the 

 south-west area, mostly by motor car with Mr. J. Higham, 

 the owner of the car, and a keen field-naturalist. Unfor- 

 tunatelv, it was then the driest and hottest summer on record 

 there ; birds were in full moult, and we were much incon- 

 venienced by disastrous bush-fires, that had swept about 

 half the country traversed. I returned to Perth early in 

 April with the intention of doing more field-work in Siiark 

 Bay and Dirk Hartog Island ; but as the shipping strike still 

 prevented coastal steamers running, and then influenza 

 spread to Western Australia, making local travelling very 

 difficult and unpleasant on account of the stringent health 

 regulations, 1 reluctantly gave up my proposed trip and 

 returned to England via the Suez Canal, being very for- 

 tunate in obtaining a berth that an intending passenger had 

 thrown up at almost the last moment. 



Dromiceius novaBhollandise woodwardi. 



When camped 3-4 Se[)tember, 1911, at the artesian bore, 

 which is situated in long red sand ridges with much scrub 

 on them, about twelve miles east of Maud's Landing, Enms 

 were coming to drink in great numbers the \\hole time at 

 the rather extensive swamp caused by the overflow from the 

 bore-pipe. The water at the pipe is so hot that I could not 

 keep my hand in it, and is too salt for human use. My 

 horses refused to drink it, and they were thirsty. Owing to 

 the drought then prevailing, there was no other water 

 available for the Emus for a long distance. The remains of 

 dead Emus that had been entangled in the paddock-fence 



