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Mr. T. Carter on some 
[Ibis, 
Leggeornis elegans. 
Only one party o£ Red-winged Wrens was seen in the 
south-west, viz. at Augusta, on 6 April, 1919, with one 
full-plumaged male. None were observed on the Warren 
River, where in 1910 I saw a good many. Mr. Higham 
obtained some specimens in May 1919 at Gfingin, about 
thirty miles north of Perth. 
Leggeornis piilcherrimus stirlingi. 
Although a good look-out was kept for South-western 
Blue-breasted Wrens, only one party of five was seen, in 
sand-plain scrub, thirty miles east of Broome Hill. They 
were in full moult. 
Stipiturus mklachurus westernensis. 
Westralian Emu-Wrens were common about Augusta and 
Cape Leeuwin, 1916-19. 
Stipiturus melachurus media. 
The type-specimen of this Emu-Wren was obtained by 
me a few miles east of Grnowangerup (thirty miles south¬ 
east of Broome Hill) on 12 February, 1919 (vide Mathews, 
Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1919, p. 45). Several small parties of these 
birds, from three to six in number, were seen in scrubby 
sand-plain country, which is practically always dry, and 
devoid of any surface water. In general plumage this 
subspecies is lighter in colour than Stipiturus m. westernensis , 
and distinctly smaller in size. It comes midway between 
that bird and S. m. liartogi , and is a good subspecies. The 
habits of all three are similar. On 26 July, 1908, I shot a 
similar bird on a sand plain a few miles east of Broome 
Hill, but never saw any other there. 
Although the Stirling Ranges are only about twenty miles 
distant to the south of where the type was secured, Whitlock 
does not record hating seen any Emu-Wrens there in his 
1911 expedition (see 4 Emu,’ vol. xi.), and Milligan in his 
account of his trip there in 1902 (‘Emu/ vol. iii.) only 
records having seen one bird, that was not secured. 
