NOTES-ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDSKINS FROM 
KALGOORLIE, W. 
By Roserr HALL. 
[Communicated by. Proressor E. C. SriRLING.] 
[Read April 3, 1900.] 
Kalgoorlie, Alice Springs, and Derby are approximately 1,000 
miles from each other, embracing a triangular-like mass of 
species are known to be associated with the South-West position. 
To Mr. Lindsay Cameron I am indebted for a nice collection of 
with low rounded hills every few miles, and is covered with short 
and dry eucalyptus-scrub some 15 feet high. Occasional 
Casuarinas are seen, wit lsolaceæ interspersed between the 
ms.  Eucalypts, perhaps 50 feet high, are represented wit 
their branches meagrely supplied with foliage. There appears to 
be no surface water away from the minin i 
of this colony is supplying us from a part some 300 miles distant.” 
From this information we may gather that water birds will not 
be mentioned in this esent “list, and ae it is a land in which 
an stern man so much misses the organ-pipe strains of the 
Persia d u ) and the piping "eins of the Magpie Lark 
Thos 
the Sir Thomas Elder Expedition, who above Kalgoortie, and as 
recorded in the Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., XVI, p. 156. Eighteen 
specimens of ten species are there no oted as the total ornitho- 
logical results of that long journey. The Bower-bird (Chlamy- 
dodera guttata) appears to bave been the most important find, 
and not before or since recorded as found in W.A. The Cockatoo 
(Cacatua roseicapilla) was at that time noted as well, this beings 
one of three field observations in the West to date. Recorded 
now as found in West and South-West Australia is the yellow- 
