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Collection of Birds from Western Australia . 
Rhipidura preissi (Cab.). 
Rhipidura preissi Math. p. 65. 
a. Ad. King River, 7th Dec. 
b. Imm. Chockerup, 25th Jan. 
c-e. Ad. Big Grove, 8th April-lst May. 
/. $ imm. Margaret River, 1st March. 
g. Ad. Carnarvon, 5th Aug. 
Iris dark brown ; bill and legs dusky black. 
The total length, measured in the flesh, varies from 
6-6*25 inches. 
[Preiss’s Fantail, also known to the Colonists as the Grey 
Fantail, is abundant in the south-west, but in the north¬ 
west it is not plentiful and does not extend inland. Tt is 
somewhat similar in its habits to R. tricolor , but is not 
terrestrial. It is extraordinarily tame.— G. C. >8.] 
Rhipidura tricolor (Vieill.). 
Rhipidura tricolor Math. p. 66; Seth-Smith, Av. Mag. 
(n. s.) vii. no. 7, pi. (1909). 
a-d. S ? • Arthur River, 17th-28th June. 
e-h. S $ • Kurrawang, 18th Sept.-lst Oct. 
i. S' Laverton, 26th Oct. 
Iris dark brown; bill and feet black. 
The total length, measured in the flesh, varies from 8- 
9 inches. 
[The Black - and-White Fantail is a very abundant 
species, but, curiously enough, does not occur round 
Albany, although it is numerous in the neighbourhood of 
Busselton. 
It is an extraordinarily tame bird, and its habit of 
attaching itself to populated districts makes it one of the 
best known and most conspicuous of the smaller birds of 
Western Australia.— G. C. >8.] 
PsEUDOGERYGONE CULICIVORA (Gould). 
Pseudogerygone culicivora Math. p. 63. 
a, b. S • King River, 18th Dec. & 1st Jan. 
Cj d. S ? • Arthur River, 18th & 22nd June. 
