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It has lately been doubted if any of these birds survive in New 

 Zealand, which country, so far as is known, is or was its only 

 habitat. The present example was obtained in the south island 

 in March, 1868, within seventeen miles of the town of Nelson; 

 and the specimen of Owen's Apteryx was killed at the same time 

 and place. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper 

 (Totanus macularius), which had been forwarded by Mr W. C. 

 Angus, Aberdeen, corresponding member. The bird was one of a 

 pair obtained near that city in August, 1867. Mr Gray said that 

 although the Spotted Sandpiper had been introduced as a British 

 species by the late Mr Yarrell many years ago, in his work on 

 British birds, none of the numerous records of that writer 

 regarding that bird could well stand scrutiny. 



PAPER READ. 



Bemarks and Notes of Correspondence on the idcntitij_ of Heterophyllia 

 Lyelli and H. mirabilis of Duncan. By Mr John Young, 



Plate IV. 



The following paper and subsequent correspondence, upon the 

 identity of two recently-described species of carboniferous corals 

 from Scotland, appeared lately in the Geological Magazine, and as 

 the errors in the description of these corals which I attempted to 

 point out, have been denied by Dr Duncan of London — the 

 author of the species in question — I have thought fit to place my 

 remarks, and the specimens upon which they are founded, before 

 the Society, with the correspondence for and against their identity, 

 so that members may have an opportunity of judging for them- 

 selves whether there are really two species of this coral, and 

 whether its spines were articulated upon tubercles as asserted by 

 Dr Duncan. 



My criticisms were not written in any hostile spirit, or mth a 

 wish to find fault with what Dr Duncan had done. My object 

 was to point out several mistakes into which I believe he had fallen, 

 from not having seen all the examples of the best preserved 

 specimens of the coral that had been obtained. 



My remarks in the Geological Magazine are as follows : — 



In a paper published in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society of 



