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Mr. T. Carter on some 
[Ibis, 
Colluricincla rufiventris rufiventris. 
Buff-bellied Shrike-Thrushes were common about Broome 
Hill and south-west localities. In the Gascoyne and Point 
Cloates districts these birds are mostly found in stony 
ranges, and are common in all the gorges of the North- 
West Cape ranges, where their song is quite different from 
that of the southern birds. On 7 August, 1916, I found a 
nest, four feet from the ground, in the fork of a small 
white-gum tree, in a gorge near the North-West Cape ; 
it contained two young birds about half-grown, and the 
male bird was sitting on them. 
Grallina cyanoleuca cyanoleuca. 
Magpie-Larks were more numerous about Broome Hill 
than any other locality. They do not occur much in heavily 
timbered districts. When at Lake Muir in March 1919, 
Mr. Muir asked me the name of a pair of these birds, which 
were feeding near his homestead, as lie said he had never 
seen them before during his long residence there, and that 
the birds had only recently arrived. 
Gymnorhina hypoleuca dorsalis. 
Western White-backed Magpies were noted in all districts 
between Woolundra and Broome Hill, at which latter place 
they are very abundant, but I think they are even more plen¬ 
tiful about the Yasse River. They do not occur in the heavily 
timbered south-western localities, but are gradually working 
their way along there as the country is cleared and opened 
out. None were seen at the Margaret River or Augusta, 
and only odd birds at the Collie. On 16 January, 1916, 
I saw fledged young being still fed by the parent birds at 
Broome Hill; and on 24 February, 1917, I saw a tame bird 
of the previous year that was completely white in plumage, 
with pale fleshy bill and legs. The irides were blue, with a 
slight tinge of pink. It would be about five .months old. 
When at the Yasse River on 27 February, 1916, I saw these 
Magpies eating many figs off the trees at a homestead, and 
also digging up with their beaks, and eating, freshly planted 
grains of maize, 
