700 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



Austrotis australis derbyi. 



Owiiio- to the drought in 1911, Australian Bustards were 

 rarely seen, but they were plentiful in 1913 and 191G from 

 Shark Bay northwards. When 1 was enjoying the hospitality 

 o£ Mr. Guy McLeod at the I\[inilya River in September 

 1916, he drove me out in his motor car in order to try 

 to shoot a " Turkey " or two. The method employed is to 

 "rush'' the motor straight towards a feeding bird, so as to 

 get within shooting range, and stop the car before the heavy 

 creature can rise. We secured a fine Turkey that weighed 

 10 lbs. and wiis 7 feet in expanse of wing. 



Carphibis spinicollis. 



Straw-necked Ibises were numerous in the Minilya River 

 district in August 1911, when a drought prevailed. On 

 1 September, 1913, I picked up the remains of an im- 

 mature bird near one of the pools in the stony bed of the 

 Yardie Creek. It must have been reared somewhere in 

 that area the same year, but I saw no living Ibises on that 

 trip. They were very plentiful on the Minilya Station in 

 191C), and in April 1919 I saw several about the Vasse 

 River, mostly single birds or pairs. I was informed on 

 good authority that this species made its first appearance 

 in the Albany district in 1892, and caused much comment 

 as to its identity ; also that it was then plentiful about 

 Cape Riche, fifty miles east of Albany. [The first recorded 

 appearance of Straw-necked Ibises in Western Australia was 

 at Derby, in the far north, by Captain Bowyer Bower in 

 1886, the next to the south at the -Minilya River in 1888 

 (see 'Zoologist,' July 1889, Carter), and the first record 

 oi hreedinfi in Western Australia was in October 1900 

 (see ' Zoologist,' July 1901, Carter).] 



Platibis flavipes. 



On 20 April, 1911, I shot one of a pair of Yellow-billed 

 Spoonbills at a pool near the Minilya River, the only occa- 

 sion on which I have seen this species ; though for several 

 years previous to that date I had been told of White Ibises 

 having been seen ; but I now think that Spoonbills had been 



