110 MATHEWS— Birds of North and North- West Australia. 



No. 249— Male. Length, 18.8 inches (31/8/86). 



Irides, red; bill and frontal plate, deep red; legs and feet, 

 flesh colour, with the scales on all the joints of an olive grey 

 colour. 



No. 344— Male. Length, 18.8 inches (18/9/86). 



Irides, hazel; bill and frontal plate, red, passing with 

 brown at the tip of the bill; legs and feet salmon colour, 

 darker or of a grey tint at the joints. 



29. Fulica atra australis. Western Coot. 



Fulica australis (Gould). Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, 

 p. 2. West Australia. 



No. 363— Male. Length, 15.6 inches (24/9/86). 



No. 361— Female. Length, 14.6 inches (24/9/86). 



29. Podiceps cristatus christiani. Tippet Grebe. 

 Podiceps cristatus christiani (Mathews). Birds Austr., Vol. 



I., p. 267, pi. 64, 1911. Victoria. 



No. 360— Female. Length, 20.8 inches (24/9/86). 



Shot in a large pool about two hundred yards across and 

 some three hundred long, with clear water in the centre, but 

 with thick weeds for some fifteen yards round the side, which 

 weeds grow below the surface of the water. 



30. Tachybaptus ruficollis parryi. North-western Black- 



throated Grebe. 



Podiceps fluviatilis parryi (Mathews). Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XVIII., p. 197. 1912, Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 



No. 231— Male. Length, 10.9 inches (12/7/86). 



No. 232— Female. Length, 10 inches (12/7/86). 



No. 333— Female. Length, 10.4 inches (30/7/86). 



Irides, a fine line round the pupil bright white, succeeded 

 by a broad one of pale ochre, minutely freckled with black; 

 upper mandible, olive brown along the culmen, yellowish- 

 white on the sides from under the nostrils to the gape, where 

 the yellow becomes lighter; bluish horn on the sides from the 

 nostrils to the tip, which is white; lower mandible yellowish- 

 white, tinged with brown at the tip, base and skinny parts 

 greenish yellow; legs and feet, dark olive, much tinged with 

 yellow on the inside of the tarsi and on the broad webs of the 

 toes. 



No. 337— Male. Length, 11.1 inches (30/7/86). 



