1920.] Western Australian Birds. 693 



Petrella capensis australis. 



When I was on Dirk Haitog Island, 4 October, 191G, 

 there was an exi^eptionally heavy gale (for that district) 

 blowing from the north to north-west. The Government 

 " fish " steamer, the ' Una/ left Fremantle that evening 

 for Shark Bay, but had to put back, owing to the tremen- 

 dous seas outside. Mr. J. H. Mead, who at that time 

 owned the Peron Peninsula sheep station, was a passenger 

 on the ' Una/ which eventually arrived in Shark Bay 

 on 10 October. He told me that when the steamer 

 again left Fremantle the captain of it called his attention 

 to the numerous " Cape Pigeons " that followed and flew 

 around the ' Una ' until close to Greraldton. The captain 

 knew the birds well, and said he had never previously seen 

 them off that part of the Australian coast. There are no 

 details of any definite record of this species occurring in 

 Australian seas in Mathews's ' Birds of Australia,' and his 

 Reference List of 1913 states : '■'Range. East Australia and 

 New Zealand seas" ; so I think the above is worthy of record 

 and is quite reliable. 



? Nealbatrus chlororhynchus. 



No Albatroses were obtained, but when going bv whaling- 

 tug to Carnarvon on 12 September, 1913, I saw a good 

 many soon after getting clear of the Point Cloates reef's. 

 The birds seen had dark blackish wings anil backs, white 

 heads, necks, and under parts, and, through my binoculars, 

 their bills all appeared to be quite black, as is the case 

 in Nealhatrus cldororhijnchus carteri., which was got close 

 there. 



Chlidonias leucoptera grisea. 



On 2 June, 1919, Mr. W. B. Alexander of the Western 

 Australian Museum and I saw many Australian White- 

 winged Terns flying and feeding over the tall rushes 

 growing in Herdman's Lake near Perth. The first recorded 

 occurrence of these birds in Western Australia was early 

 in 1917 (see Mr. Alexander's account in ' Emu,' vol. xvii. 

 p. 95). 



