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Collection of Birds from Western. Australia. 
h, i. £ vix a( C Kurrawang, 15th & 20th Sept. 
Iris dark brown; eyelid yellow (dull greenish-yellow in 
the immature) ; bill of a dark horn-colour, greenish or 
yellowish-brown below ; legs light brownish-yellow. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, 12*25-13*25 inches. 
[The Pallid Cuckoo was plentiful and migratory.—■ 
G. C. £.] 
Merops ornatus (Lath.). 
Merops ornatus Math. p. 55. 
a-c. Ad. et imm. Avon River, llth-18th Jan. 
d. $ . Stockpool, 23rd Jan. 
e. S • Southern Cross, Dec. 
/. . Carnarvon, 25th Aug. 
g-i. S • Clifton Downs, 21st Sept.-llth Oct. 
Iris crimson; bill black; legs dull brownish-pink or 
yellowish-brown. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, $, 10*75 inches, 
? , 9*25. 
[The Australian Bee-eater is a migratory species which is 
plentifully distributed throughout Western Australia. It 
does not seem to extend so far south as Albany. Except 
during the breeding-season, it is gregarious.— G. C. $.] 
Halcyon sanctus Yig. & Horsf. 
Halcyon sanctus Math. p. 54. 
Halcyon westralasianus Campbell, Emu, ii. p. 25 (1902) 
(Yasse River) ; Math. p. 54. 
a-g. $ $ imm. King River, 11th Jan.-8th Feb. 
h. ? imm. Oyster Harbour, 27th Feb. 
i. $ . Albany Harbour, 23rd March. 
k. Imm. Chockerup, 22nd Jan. 
/, m. ? . Dale River, 18th Dec. & Jan. 
n. Imm. Avon River, Jan. 
Iris dark brown; bill black, base of the lower mandible 
of a light horn-colour; legs of a dark pinkish horn-eolour. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, 8*25-9*0 inches. 
I have examined the type-specimen of H. westralasianus 
Campbell, which was procured by Mr. Carter at the Yasse 
