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JBlyth kindly placed his animals in my charge for observation, but as 
I was at that time unable to give them the necessary study, they were 
returned, to await a more favorable opportunity. This proved a dis- 
astrous proceeding, lor within a week the animals escaped and were 
not again seen. 
Two months later, Mr. B. H. Woodward, Director of the 
Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, asked me to examine 
the examples which he still had alive. 
During the two or three days I had Mr. Blyth’s animals in my 
possession, I found them to be very tolerant of the hand, having been 
accustomed thereto by their owner, though he told me that at first he 
had received some sharp bites from them. 
I several times liberated them in a closed room, but by approach- 
ing gently had small difficulty in securing them again. When startled, 
say by clapping the hands, they would make a spasmodic spring of two 
feet or more. 
In response to any inquiries regarding the behaviour of the 
animals in captivity, Mr. Woodward writes: — “The only habits I 
noticed were the wonderful quickness and skill in catching beetles, of 
which they were very fond. They always avoided the light as much as 
possible.” 
CERCHNEIS UNICOLOR (Milligan) Western Kestrel- 
Type Male, No. 6667 in W.A. Museum. — Yalgoo. 
This bird was captured alive at Yalgoo, in the north-western por- 
tion of this State (where it is said to be a very common form) and sent 
to the Zoological Gardens, South Perth. Ihe Director, Mr. Ernest 
Le Souef, and the head-keeper of the Gardens, Mr. Giles, were, on its 
arrival at the Gardens, at once struck with its diminutive form and 
general rufous coloration as compared with living forms of Cerchneis 
cenchroides (Vig. and Hors ) which they had in the Gardens. On its 
death it was sent to the Museum and examined by Mr. Milligan, who 
stated that the new bird differs from the common form in not posses- 
sing any white or pale feathers on the under parts of the body, those 
parts being a decided cinnamon pink, and thus very distinctive. In 
addition, the tail is not grey, but rusty-cinnamon, and the legs pea- 
green and not orange yellow. The bird also is much smaller. 
