694 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



Hydroprogne caspia streniia. 



Oil 4 September, 191o, I found !i young example, in down, 

 of tlie Australian Caspian Tern at the mouth of the Yardie 

 (.h*eek. Other hii-ds were breeding on the tops of bare sand- 

 drifts at Point Cloates, 5 July, 1916. 



Thalasseus bergii gweiidolenae. 



Western Crested Terns were plentiful at Point C-loates 

 and Maud's Landing on the three visits made there ; also at 

 Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin, while a few were seen 

 at Lake Muir, where a specimen was shot for identification. 



Bruchigavia novsehollandise longirostris. 



Western Silver Gulls were numerous on all parts of the 

 coast visited. A good many were seen at Lake Muir in 

 March 1919, where they sometimes breed on the small 

 islands in the Lake. 



Gabianus pacificus georgi. 



The first date on which I saw AVestern Pacific Gulls at 

 (Carnarvon was in September 1913. They are not plentiful, 

 but have now extended their range to Point Cloates, where 

 none were seen during my tlurteen years' residence. 

 Mv own oj)inion is that they went there to feed on the 

 carcases of the hundreds of dead whales that lay along the 

 beach from Maud's Landing to the North- West C^ape in 

 1913, the blubber having been stripped from them by the 

 whalers on the factor ship who then set them adrift. Some 

 of these birds were seen at the whaling station near Point 

 Cloates on G September, 1913. 



Arenaria interpres oahuensis. 



A few Eastern Turnstones were seen at Point Cloates on 

 28 June, 19 iG. 



Hasmatopus ostralegus picatus. 



Pied Oystercatehers were common on all trips from Shark 

 Bay to North-West Cape. This species is not nearly so 

 numerous in the south-west as it is further north. 



