BROWN SONG-LARK. 
Gascoyne and North-west Cape districts, being most numerous after the winter 
rains, when their loud cheerful song can be heard everywhere. The breeding- 
season is from June to September. About Broome Hill and most of the south- 
west they are by no means common, but no doubt will become so as the timber 
is cleared away and the land becomes open, as they do not occur in heavy 
timbered country.” 
Mr. J. P. Rogers wrote me : “ When going up Jegurra Creek some of 
these birds were seen forty-five miles south of the Fitzroy River. Two males 
were seen on a plain four miles west of Mungi. On the plains along the Fitzroy 
River in the wet season this is a common species.” 
Bernard has recorded : “ A common summer resident in North Queensland. 
We have them here, too, through most winters, but in greatly reduced numbers, 
and in numbers, too, they vary one year with another. This winter (1904) 
(end of July) they are more numerous than usual for the time of year ; last 
winter they were entirely absent, with the exception of an odd bird, while 
through the winters of 1901 and 1902 there were a good many about. But 
our summer larks and our winter larks are different individuals, the former 
moving off in April or May, and the latter taking possession within a week or 
two, but in the interval there is a total absence ; but September again finds 
the winter birds slipping away until we have practically none in November, 
and thus we remain until our summer lot comes back to us during December. 
They nest in the district. I have found eggs and young squabs through 
February and March, my earliest date being 8th February (four eggs slightly 
incubated). I once found a nest with five eggs (14th February). The 
male is rather grotesque-looking, with long legs and big feet, and he does 
not add to his appearance when he sits on the top of a fence-post with 
his tail stuck up at right angles to his back — an attitude that doesn’t seem 
decorous. His song, too, is just such as you would expect from him, 
quaint and unmusical, but, being in no way discordant, is pleasant to listen 
to. Although the winter birds sing while with us they do not don the black 
breast.” 
When Witmer Stone reported upon the Gouldian types in Philadelphia, 
a revision of which has now become necessary and is being undertaken, he 
concluded : “ Cincloramphus cantatoris Gould, South Australia. G. cantillans was 
substituted as a better name in the Birds of Australia 17264 (1093). 4 West ’ = 
South, Australia is the Type, as Gould figured the bird from Port Phillip, 
4 South ’ Australia. As explained above, the misreading of a 4 W ’ for an 4 S 9 
in the manuscript catalogue would easily account for such discrepancies.” 
Through inadvertence 44 South Australia ” was therefore given as the type 
locality in my List of the Birds of Australia, whereas obviously it should have 
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