86 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. III. 



" Oct. 22. Saw birds tunning at: great speed with tails 

 erect from one clump of bushes to another. Occasionally 

 the birds hopped, but mostly ran at speed. 



" Nov. 4th: Twice I saw a bird run from one bush to another 

 then it new well about twenty-five yards into "the bottom of 

 a big wattle bush. Its flight was straight, not undulating, 

 with tail slightly drooping. Later as I approached another 

 about four feet from the ground, it dropped to ground and 

 disappeared. 



"Nov. 10th. Mr. Lloyd came to station and said he saw 

 a Grass Wren come out of the scrub and flutter along the road 

 for some distance uttering a squeaking noise. The dogs had 

 frightened the bird out of the scrub onto the road. 



" Diaphorillas textilis textilis. Jan. 2, 1917. On several 

 occasions previous to this date, I had seen a single, and once 

 a pair of birds, in low scrub near Denham on Peron Peninsula 

 that I felt sure were Diaphorillas. One day I had a shot at one 

 with No. 10 shot, but although the bird seemed to be hit, I 

 lost it in scrub. For eight consecutive days I was hunting 

 found the vicinity when I 'saw a bird moving in the bottom- of 

 the scrub. I chirped with my lips and. -at once it ernei'ged from 

 below busH, and ran away from me with wings drooping and 

 "feathers puffed out, to underneath a dense " needle " bush, 

 under whose shelter it" paused. I had not a very clear view 

 of it, but shot and killed it, a male Diaphorillas textilis with 

 testes enlarged. In measurement it is much the same as 

 Dirk Hartog birds, but the general plumage is darker, brighter, 

 and with bolder markings than any from Dirk Hartog Island. 

 The Peron bird is much more wary than the others." 



The above note refers absolutely to the typical form named 

 by Dumont and Quoy and Gaimard and figured by them. 



The following is a description of the two species. 



Nesomalttrtts leucoptertts. 



'Adult male. Head, mantle, outer upper wing-coverts, 

 lower back, upper tail-coverts, sides of the face, throat and 

 entire under-surface of the body glossy blue-black with steel- 



