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io Cape Leeuwin in March 1916. Some of their nests of 
the previous year were examined in scrub between the 
swamp and the beach ; they were made of fine grass and 
fibre, and partly domed. Boys from the lighthouse quarters 
said they found nests there every year. A few of these 
birds were seen, and specimens obtained, on 25 March, 
1919, in dense scrub below Karri Forest on the Warren 
River. 
Taeniopygia castanotis wayensis. 
Chestnut-eared Finches were fairly common, for a short 
time, about 14 October, 1911, at Broome Hill and to the 
east of there. It was a very dry year. A specimen was 
obtained by me at Lake Muir on 1 January, 1916, which 
is the farthest south locality where I have seen this bird. 
They were, as usual, abundant from Carnarvon, northwards, 
on all visits there. Many nests contained eggs there on 
7 September, 1911, and early September 1913 and 1916. 
Mr. G. M. Mathews described the Dirk Hartog specimens 
of this species, collected by me in 1916, as Tceniopygia c. 
hartogi subsp. nov. (vide Bulletin B. 0. C. xl. 1920, p. 76). 
Emblema picta coongani. 
Painted Finches were seen in some numbers on parts of 
the North-West Cape ranges. On 27 July, 1916, I saw a 
flock of more than twenty in a deep gorge, and shortly 
afterwards, at a water-hole high up on the ranges, there 
were many of these birds engaged in drinking. Several 
specimens were obtained there on different days, but none of 
the birds were breeding. When I was at Carnarvon in 1913 
a bird-fancier, who specialized in Finches and had a large 
aviary of them there, assured me that he had found occasional 
nests of Emblema picta in the vicinity. 
Chlamydera maculata nova. 
The first specimen of the Cape Spotted Bower-bird was 
obtained by me early in February 1892, and not 1902 as 
stated in the ‘Emu,’ vol. iii. p. 37, and as that record may 
not be familiar to the readers of 6 The Ibis,’ I repeat the 
