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any fresh water, where there were usually numbers of this 
handsome Duck. On one occasion I shot and skinned a 
young male that had no green on the head and neck, but 
had the rich chocolate-brown on the breast, and I shot and 
dissected an undoubted female that had a most pronounced 
glossy green head and neck and red-brown breast. In my 
paper 44 Exploration of North-West Cape/’ 4 Emu,’ ii. p. 81, 
line 13, the word not was unfortunately printed instead of 
most , through a printer’s error. 
41. Eupodotis australis (J. E. Gray). 
Mr. Shortridge states that 44 the Australian Bustard is 
less abundant in the S.W. and does not extend to the coast.” 
It certainly occurs regularly within a mile or two of the 
coast from a few miles north of the Swan River to the N.W. 
Cape. At Point Cloates I have often seen it on the beach. 
42. Burhinus grallarius (Lath.). 
Mr. Shortridge states that 44 the Southern Stone-Plover is 
known as the 4 wheelo’ among the colonists.” They usually 
call it a Curlew. According to my experience, 44 wheelo ” is 
the aboriginal name. Most probably the Stone-Plover that 
Mr. Shortridge saw about Carnarvon and Bernier Island was 
Orthorhamphus magnirostris. 
43. Orthorhamphus magnirostris Yieill. 
This species occurred and bred regularly about the North- 
West Cape, but I never observed it south of Point Cloates. 
It would be interesting to record it outside the Tropics. 
41. Zonifer tricolor (Yieill.). 
Mr. Shortridge says 44 the Black-breasted Plover is a 
regular migrant round 4 Cape ’ York.” Probably he means 
the town of York, which is about forty-five miles east of 
Perth in West Australia. It is a 44 far cry” from there to 
Cape York (roughly about 2200 miles). 
45. HjEMatqpus longirostris Yieill. 
Mr. Shortridge remarks that this species appeared to be 
“ a less robust bird than H. fuliginosus , as it was rarely 
