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dark, and camped. Next morning I had my breakfast 
before daylight, and getting in the horses, by 7 A.M. drove 
back to where I had seen the bird the previous afternoon, 
and spent nearly all day there, beating through and through 
the spinifex, with intervals of watching. One of the birds 
was twice flushed in different places (or it might have been 
the same one), but although I carefully pulled all the 
spinifex to pieces near where I had seen them, no nest was 
discovered. 1 did not shoot at the birds, as I hoped to find 
a nest through their movements. The only result after all 
my work, was to discover that the right hammer of my *410 
gun had been hopelessly lost through the screw working- 
loose and falling off when I was tapping the spinifex 
bunches with the barrel, which was not a good thing 
to do. 
When I reached Minilya Station I made a new hammer 
from a piece of quarter-inch flat iron, cut to shape, that 
acted quite well for the rest of the trip, and I have it 
}^et. I shall always think that my enforced stay of three 
weeks at Point Cloates lighthouse was the cause of my not 
being the first to discover the nest and eggs of Eremiornis , 
but Mr. Whitlock well earned that distinction by his 
untiring efforts. 
Acanthiza pusilla apicalis. 
Broad-tailed Tits were common in all south-western 
districts, and especially so in the vicinity of Broome Hill 
and Lake Muir. 
Acanthiza inornata masters!. 
South-western Plain-coloured Tits were common in the 
south-western area, and especially in the more heavily 
timbered districts, as Lake Muir, Warren Biver, Collie, 
and Blackwood. They do not seem to occur about 
Broome Hill. 
Acanthiza, inornata carnarvoni. 
The type of the Carnarvon Tit (Mathews, 4 Austral Avian 
Record,’ vol.ii. 1913, p. 76) was obtained by me on 13 August, 
