1920.] Western Australian Birds. 695 



Zonifer tricolor gwendolenae. 



Western Black-breasted Plovers were constantly seen 

 about Broome Hill and forty miles east of that place. Also 

 at Woolundra and yronnd there, one hundred and forty miles 

 east from Perth, in May 1919. When staying at Busselton 

 on the Vasse River in April 1919, I noticed small parties of 

 them on ffrassv cleared land, and having; never seen these 

 birds before in that locality on my numerous visits there, I 

 enquired of the farmer who owned the land how long the 

 Plovers had been there. He told me that a pair of them 

 had arrived a few years previously and that they had 

 increased in numbers very quickly. 



Squatarola squatarola hypomelas. 



Eastern Grey Plovers were numerous and in ilocks 

 during the last week of September 1913 on the wide sand 

 and mud-flats at the mouth of the north branch of the 

 Gascoyne River. Many of them still retained much of the 

 black plumage on their breasts. I never saw such a " wave '' 

 of Wiiders returning from their breeding-quarters as there 

 was during the above week. 



Pliivialis dominicus fulvus. 



A party of six: Lesser Golden Plovers v\'ere seen at 

 Carnarvon on G Septendjer, 1913, and by the end of 

 that month the birds were very plentiful along the 

 beaches. 



Pagoa leschenaulti. 



From 24 September, 1913, and the end of that month, 

 Large Sand-Dotterels were seen in flocks on the tidal 

 estuaries of the Gascoyne River and adjacent beaches. 

 Many went further u[) the river, feeding on the edges of 

 a large freshwater pool. 1 picked up a dead biid on the 

 bridge of the light railway for the jetty, across the south 

 branch of the Gascoyne River, rhat had evidently been 

 killed by striking one of the tele()hone wires. 



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