so THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



38. Ninox connivens may be recorded for the Dawson River. 

 During my visit to that district one of the winking owls was 

 flushed from a nest in a hollow tree which contained fledglings. 



42. Ninox rufa. A skin of this owl is in the Queensland 

 Museum from the Rockingham Bay District. 



56. Capj'imulgus macrurus, I have never heard of this 

 species having been taken in Victoria, nor yet in South 

 Australia. 



62. Lagenoplastes ariel. Mr. Wintle, F.L.S., found this species 

 breeding at Bridport, Tasmania, in 1883. Gould says: — "In 

 Western Australia it (the fairy martin) is common between 

 Northam and York." Yet Dr. Ramsay has omitted to show 

 its existence in either of these colonies. 



67. Dacelo gigas should have been shown for the Rockingham 

 Bay District, since its presence was recorded there in the 

 Naturalist, February 1886 (page 126). I saw several of the 

 birds in that locality, and felt somewhat of a murderer for 

 having shot a laughing jackass from a tree overhead our camp 

 to make sure of its identity so far north. 



72. Halcyon pyrrhopy gius . Referring to the red-backed 

 kingfisher, Gould says : — '' I have received specimens from the 

 interior of Swan River." Yet again Dr. Ramsaj^ has not debited 

 the bird to West Australia. 



124. Edoliisoma tenuirostre. I shot a male Jardine's campe- 

 phaga in East Gippsland, 1881. Examples from other parts of 

 Victoria are also in the National Museum. 



126. Lalage tricolor. Dr. Ramsay does not credit West 

 Australia with this migratory bird, notwithstanding it is quoted 

 in Gould to be a summer visitant to that part of the continent. 



141 and 146. Collyriocincla parvula and C. rufigaster. I took 

 particular notice of the smaller shrike-thrush in the Dawson 

 district. It appears, undoubtedly, to be riifigaster, and not 

 pai-vula. Dr. Ramsay has probably in error transposed the 

 species. 



145. Collyriocincla rujiventris is found in South as well as 

 West Australia. 



154. Chibia bractenta. An example from Victoria is in the 

 National Museum, and the species has been recorded in 

 Tasmania. Both places are blanks on Dr. Ramsay's list. 



158. Rhipidura rnfifrons. Dr. Ramsay may remove the 

 ^' query" standing against this fantail for the Rockingham Bay 

 district, since undoubted examples were taken there and on the 

 adjacent Barnard Islands. See Naturalist, February, 1886, 

 page 126. 



167. Myiagra concirtna. I think by some inadvertence Dr. 

 Ramsay has omitted this flycatcher from the Dawson River 

 district, because he had previously described the eggs from that 

 locality. 



