On Birds from Western Australia. 121 
Stilbopsar kenricki still seems to me to be distinct {cf, 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1899, p. 593). 
117. Spreo superbus. 
Spreo superbus (Riipp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 
p. 189 (1890) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 595 ; Hartert, App. 
Afr. Sun, p. 312 ; Neum. J. £. O. 1900, p. 280. 
Nos. 616, 647 (^,648 ? . Lake Baringo, March 1901. 
118. Lamprotornis brevicauda. 
Lamprotornis brevicauda Sharpe ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, 
p. 591 ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 281. 
No. 644. (^ . Lake Baringo, March. 
119. Heterocorax capensis. 
Heterocorax capensis (Licht.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 239; 
Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 587. 
Nos. 635, 636. S ? ad. Lake Baringo, March 22, 1901. 
VIII. — On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia. 
By Robert Hall. 
The collection which is the subject of these notes was 
formed by the writer between Albany and the Houtman^s 
Abrolhos between Sept. 23rd and Nov. 8th5 1899. In it the 
species represented number 69, the specimens 156. They 
are from three types of country — the heavily timbered south- 
west corner of the district, the flat region beyond, and the 
Houtman^s Abrolhos. Although I did not travel on the south- 
east of the Stirling Range, I secured a collection of eggs of 
the birds resident in these parts which indicate the boundary 
between the moist mountain-district and the lisrhtlv timbered 
sandy lands to the eastward. 
The places of special interest to me were the country 
between Albany and Denmark, some 40 miles west of the 
former ; Katanning, 100 miles north of the same ; Geraldton, 
300 miles above Perth; and the Houtman's Abrolhos, some 
40 miles off Geraldton. In Denmark I did not meet with 
sufficient success to compensate me for some three days 
