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seen a single Tree-Creeper during my long residence in the 
Gascoyne (Lower) and North-West Cape districts ; but in 
1900 I found a deserted egg, that was new to me, in a nest 
soaked with rain-water in a cavity of a small tree, about 
sixty miles inland from Point Cloates. I forwarded the egg 
to Mr. A. J. Campbell at Melbourne, for identification, and 
he replied that it was undoubtedly the egg of some species 
of Climacteris , and he published a description of it in the 
‘ Emu/ vol. x. p. 299. 
The first time I was in the Gascoyne district again, after 
Mr. Ogilvie-GranPs 1909 ‘ Ibis ’ paper was published, was in 
August 1911, and I kept a good look out for W. m. wellsi , 
but saw none on the lower part of the river. However, 
when travelling south by mail-coach from the Minilya river, 
on 12 September, I caught a glimpse of what I felt sure 
were Tree-Creepers in some Jam (Acacia) timber through 
which we passed, but of course could not follow them. 
Almost exactly the same thing happened on 18 August, 
1913, in the same patch of Jam trees ; but when there next 
time, on 13 September, 1915, I was able to accept the kind 
hospitality of my old friend Mr. Harry Campbell, and stay 
a few days at his station homestead, in the vicinity of which 
I had seen the birds. Mr. Campbell drove me out a few 
miles that day, but we had no luck with Tree-Creepers ; 
but on the 14th I had a long walk round and obtained three 
specimens of the bird, and found a nest with two young 
birds almost full grown. 
The “ Jam ” trees grow to a height of about twenty-five 
feet, with trunks from a foot to twenty inches in diameter, 
and derive their local name from the sweet scent of the 
timber, which always reminded me of violets. I was 
scanning the scattered trees as I walked along through 
them, and saw ahead of me something rapidly moving in 
and out from a hole, about eight feet from the ground, 
in one of them. At first I thought this object was the head 
of one of the large lizards, or monitors, that are great 
robbers of eggs and young birds, but getting nearer, saw 
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