1920.] Western Australian Birds. 699 



Erolia ferruginea chinensis. 



Many Eastern Curlew-Sandpipers were seen about (Car- 

 narvon 21 September, 1911, and on 11 Au<^ust, 1913. a flock 

 o£ about fifty were feeding at the edge of a freshwater 

 pool in the Gascoyne River two miles from the sea. 



Canutus canutus rogersi. 



E;istt;rn Knots were fairly common at Carnarvon from 

 21 September, 1911, to the end of that month, and 

 also during the same period in 1916. A specimen shot 

 on 20 September, 191(j, still retained some of the rufous 

 breeding-plumage on its under parts and blackish feathers 

 on the mantle. 



Anteliotringa tenuirostris. 



Great Knots were feeding with the above species, 

 and specimens were obtained 20 September, 1911, and 

 20 September, 1916. 



Glareola maldivarum orientalis. 



I have a skin of an Oriental Pratincole sent to me for 

 identification by Mr. G. Baston, who shot it at Maud's 

 Landing 13 May, 1912. This species used to be seen 

 by me at Point CHoates in stormy weather with northerly 

 winds. 



Orthorharaphus magnirostris neglectus. 



A pair of this fine anti very wary species, the Long-billed 

 Stone-Plover, was seen on the beach on 5 September, 1913, 

 a few miles south of Yardie Creek. After much trouble 

 1 shot one of them, but it fell far out to sea. Another pair 

 was seen on 27 July, 191G, about twenty miles north of the 

 Yardie Creek (at the shingly ridge where I found an egg of 

 this bird on 2-4 October, 1900). As I could not get near the 

 birds, 1 told the blackfellow with me to make a long detour 

 past them, and slowly drive them towards me to where I was 

 hidden behind a rock on the beach. The ruse was successful, 

 and I obtained the female, which was breeding. Another 

 pair was seen further north on 4 August, 



