RUFOUS TREECREEPER. 
more so than C. r. rufa which is the subspecies occurring about there. 
Specimens of C. r. obscura have been obtained by me on the Blackwood River, 
the Hay River, Lake Muir, and around Albany, all in Jarrah and Red Gum 
timber. Karri timber occurs largely on parts of the Warren River, but the 
birds obtained by me in that district were on Jarrah. trees. The habits of 
this subspecies resemble those of C. rufa, and doubtless the nesting and eggs 
will also be similar, but the breeding season is probably considerably later. 
On January 10th, 1912, I came upon a family of quite recently fledged young 
birds near Albany. They were attended by the parent birds and were in a 
patch of Blue Gums at the time, plenty of Jarrah growing with it.” 
Still more recently Carter has added: “ Rufous Treecreepers were 
common about Broome Hill, and also seen at Woolundra,” while “ Allied 
Rufous Treecreepers ( C . r. obscura ) were observed and specimens obtained 
at Lake Muir, the Warren, Blackwood, Margaret and Collie Rivers. They 
were all of this darker subspecies and confirm its validity. The darkest 
coloured birds were obtained on Big Brook, a tributary of the Warren River 
from the east.” 
Captain S. A. White, in the recent West Australian visit of the R.A.O.U., 
writes : “ Only seen once in the timber country (Margaret River),” while 
Ashby noted from Geraldton, “ Hot seen,” and Mellor does not include it. 
A. S. Le Souef wrote: “ The Rufous Treecreeper was numerous on 
the Porongorup Mountains (near Albany), where their habits were somewhat 
different from those of the eastern birds in that they fed high up on the trunks 
of the large trees. I did not see one fly to the base of a tree and run up, as 
the Brown Tree-creeper does. One specimen alighted on a large dead eucalypt 
about 100 feet up, and started his upward run from there.” 
Alexander, for the Perth district, recorded: “ Resident. Uncommon 
in the district, though frequent in the Darling Ranges to the eastward.” 
Whitlock has very recently given some notes in connection with the 
birds of the Nullarbor Plain : “ Two species of Treecreepers ( Climacteris) 
were noticed, but had I not read Mr. Gibson’s list I should not have been 
prepared to find the Rufous Treecreeper (C. rufa) so far east as Zanthus 
(130 miles east of Kalgoorlie). In the Murchison goldfield, in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Lake Austin, I obtained specimens of C. superciliosa. My next 
experience was to find the latter species with C. rufa in a tract of York gums, 
100 miles east of Geraldton. Some time afterwards I met with C. superciliosa 
about 30 miles to the south of Mulliwa. In the Wongan Hills, much further 
south, but in the same line of country, I obtained C. rufa, but at Southern 
Cross, further to the east, I met with C. superciliosa again. On travelling 
down to Norseman (Lake Dundas), the same species occurred north of Lake 
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