NOISY SCRUB BIRD. 
become entirely extinct. All Gilbert’s examples were males, so it may be 
that the female was practically silent. Campbell records the bird near 
Albany as follows : “ During my own western trip, when spending a few 
days in the forest at Tor Bay, about fifteen miles to the westward of 
Albany, one of the first strangers that came under my notice was the 
Noisy Scrub Bird, which lives in the thickets of undergrowth. Its very 
peculiar loud note is a kind of sharp whistle repeated eight or nine times 
rapidly, with crescendo, concluding with a sharp crack that makes the 
woods resound. Notwithstanding the presence of several pairs in the neigh- 
bourhood, I only succeeded in bagging one individual — and that a male — 
so rarely did the birds break cover.” Le Souef recorded the finding of 
a nest and eggs by Mr. J. Hassell in October 1897, near Albany. Mr. 
Tom Carter has given me a note wherein he states that Messrs. J. and 
E. A. Hassell were the finders of the nest and eggs and that they were not 
fully authenticated : as far as he can judge these birds existed until 
quite recently in that district, though he had never met with them ; 
detailed descriptions of their notes and habits had been given to him. 
It will be noted that Gould’s specimens came from between Perth 
and Augusta, while Campbell’s came from near Albany. I have named 
the latter as a distinct subspecies, as these are very different localities for 
such a ground-loving bird as the present one, and am inclined to uphold 
the two subspecies as being recognisable, although no long series can be 
contrasted as the species appear to be extinct or very nearly so. In other 
cases of passerine birds, as will hereafter be shown, distinct subspecies are 
recognised from the Albany district and the Perth one. 
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