Mr. T. Carter on some Birds of Western Australia. 647 
Two eggs, collected on October 11, 1903, are pale bine, 
blotched with brown and with underlying spots of lilac- 
grey. Measurements : axis 1*3 inch; diameter 0‘85. 
Two eggs, collected on October 2, 1903, are similar in 
ground-colour, but with the brown spots larger and much 
more pronounced. Axis 1*25—T35 inch; diameter 0’9. 
[This bird is also resident, but not common; it is one of 
the earliest breeders. The nest is built some fourteen to 
eighteen feet from the ground in the dense forest. Five 
eggs are a full clutch.— W. F .] 
XXIX.— Remarks on some Birds of Western Australia. 
By Thomas Carter, M.BO.U. 
I propose to make a few remarks upon Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's 
paper on a collection of Birds from Western Australia 
which was published in f The Ibis' for 1909, p. 650, and 
1910, p. 156. 
I may mention that I take a peculiar interest in this 
collection, as in 1903 I went to England, intending to stay, 
and took with me a collection of about five hundred bird- 
skins from Western Australia. My doctor, however, advised 
me not to risk remaining in England for the winter, so 
I offered the collection to the authorities of the British 
Museum, on their own terms ; but it was refused and went 
to the Tring Museum. In the collection were skins of many 
species now described as new by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. The 
last time I saw the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in 1909, almost 
the last words he said to me, and reiterated, were how much 
he regretted that they had not taken my collection when it 
was offered. 
1. Corvus coronoides Vig. & Horsf. 
The White-eyed Crow is very common from the Gascoyne 
B-iver to the North-West Cape. Some, shot by me at 
various dates between December and April, had the irides 
partly hazel and partly white, in the transition - stage 
