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On some Western Australian Birds. 
[Ibis, 
Cloates, apparently not breeding. 16 September, 1916. Shot 
a fledgling that had just left the nest, and could not fly 
much : the irides were bright pale blue. 
A bird, shot at the Yardie Creek on 4 August, 1916, had 
been feeding largely on caterpillars and salt-bush berries. 
Crows were a nuisance at my lonely camp at the Yardie 
that year, turning all sorts of things over when I was away 
from it. I had shot two specimens of Rock Wallaby 
(Petrogale lateralis) for food, and pegged out the skins on 
the ground, but the Crows damaged them; so next time 
I left the camp I buried the skins, laid flat, some inches 
deep in the sand, but on my return found that the Crows 
had pulled them up. On 9 September, 1913, I shot one 
of a pair of Crows, for identification, at Carnarvon, and was 
carrying it by its feet, when the other bird followed me for 
about a mile, cawing and flying close round me. It was 
presumably a female, as the one shot was a male. 
Corvus cecilse hartogi. 
My notes on the Dirk Hartog Crow were published in 
4 The Ibis,’ October 1917, p. 610. It has since been described 
as Corvus hartogi in the Bulletin B. 0. C. vol. xl. p. 76, 
30 January, 1920. 
Neostrepera versicolor plumbea. 
Leaden Crow-Shrikes were common all through the south¬ 
western area. Their northern limit seems to be about the 
Murchison River. 
Corrections. 
Referring to my paragraph in 4 The Ibis,’ July 1920, 
bottom of page 693, re Chlidonias leucoptera : as no speci¬ 
mens were obtained of this 44 White-winged Tern ” I deleted 
it from the proof-sheets, which were received by me at a 
very late date, and apparently too late to make the required 
omission, which I regret. 
On page 709 of the same paper, in the fourteenth line 
from the bottom, for 44 length ” read “height.” 
