LITTLE WHIMBEEL. 
passing at no great height overhead, all going N.W.’ Their cry of ‘ Whai’ut, 
whai’ut ’ is easily recognisable.”* 
The bird figured and described is a male collected on Parry’s Greek, North- 
west Austraha, on December 7th, 1908, by Mr. J. P. Eogers. 
This beautiful httle bird was first described by Gould and later on the 
same year Salomon Muller also named it. Since that date it has received 
no other name. 
* Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 113, 1907. 
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