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Point Cloates and Carnarvon, respectively. Other nests 
examined between 24 August and 16 September •contained 
young birds. 
Aurephthianura aurifrons flavescens. 
Western Orange-fronted Chats were scarce about Car¬ 
narvon and farther north in 1911, but not uncommon on 
salt-marshes and samphire-flats in August and September, 
1913 and 1916. Recently fledged young were seen on 
Maud’s Landing salt-marsh on 21 August, 1916. 
Conopoderas australis gouldi. 
Long-billed Reed-Warblers were not so plentiful in 
January 1916 and March 1919 at the large freshwater 
swamps adjoining Lake Muir as I had found them on 
previous visits ; but when leaving there on 22 March, 1919, 
Mr. Higham and myself found a small reedy swamp, near 
the south end of the Lake, where Reed-Warblers and Grass- 
birds abounded, and we obtained specimens of both. 
Poodytes gramineus thomasi. 
Dark Grass-birds were common on the edges of the 
freshwater swamps at Lake Muir in December 1911, but 
scarce when I was there in January 1916. On my next 
visit, in March 1919, they were fairly common, and abun- 
, dant at the swamp mentioned above. A female shot there 
on 22 March appeared to have been recently breeding. 
One of these birds, obtained at Augusta on 7 April, had 
the underparts tawny yellow, where it is whitish on the 
series of skins I have obtained at Lake Muir and Albany. 
Eremiornis carteri carter!. 
When at the Yardie Creek, from 26 August to 5 Septem¬ 
ber, 1913, I failed to see any Desert-birds, and had the 
same bad luck when there again for six days in mid-July, 
1916 ; so I left there on 25 July, and drove slowly north, 
carefully searching any patches of large Buck Spinifex 
( Triodia ) on my way, but without any result until the 29th, 
when I was camped with two aborigines who had joined me, 
