48 
Mr. T. Carter on some 
[Ibis, 
306. Podiceps nigricollis (Brehm). 
Podiceps nigricollis JD. & O. p. 513. 
A Grebe, seen on the pond at Cliinwangtao, on the 16th of 
April, 1916, appeared to be the Eared Grebe. 
307. Podiceps cristatus (L.). 
Podiceps cj'istatus D. & O. p. 514. 
The Great Crested Grebe appeared in March and April, 
and in autumn is seen as late as the middle of November. 
I have seen this bird fishing in the harbour during the latter 
month, and shot one on a creek on the 17th of November, 
1910. 
III.— On some Western Australian Birds collected between 
the North-West Cape and Albany (950 miles apart). 
By Thomas Carter, M.B.O.U., M.R.A.O.IJ. With 
Nomenclature and Remarks by Gregory M. Mathews, 
M.B.O.U., M.R.A.O.U. 
(Text-figure 1.) 
[Continued from Ibis, 1920, p. 719.] 
Hirundo neoxena carteri. 
Western Welcome Swallows were not commonly observed 
(except those at Dirk Hartog Island in May 1916, as 
already recorded in ‘ Ibis,’ October 1917) until 1 April, 1919, 
when there were great numbers perched on the telegraph- 
wires near Busselton, and more of them in the town itself. 
A few were seen at Lake Muir on 17 March, and a good 
many on the telephone-wires between Augusta and Cape 
Leeuwin, 4 April, 1919, and also in the same position at 
Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse on 11 April. 
Clieramceca leucosternum marngli. 
Western Black-and-White Swallows are not commonly 
seen in the south-west, but are always fairly plentiful about 
Carnarvon, where colonies of them breed in the perpen¬ 
dicular banks of the Gascoyne River about September ; 
