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CEstrelata neglecta Schlegel, from the Kermadec Islands. Tlie 

 Lord Howe species is referred to under the specific name of the 

 Kermadec bird in Mr. Hull's paper on the Birds of Lord Howe 

 and Norfolk Islands (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1909, xxxiv., 

 p.649), but he there expressed the opinion that the Lord Howe 

 bird is a distinct species. This opinion is verified by a com- 

 parison of the two specimens exhibited, and by a fuller account, 

 recently received from a resident, of the habits, and by examina- 

 tion of a series of the eggs of the Lord Howe bird. This is not 

 only distinct from ffi". neglecta, but it is an undescribed species; 

 and the exhibitor proposed to describe it in a further contribu- 

 tion to the Proceedings. 



Mr. Froggatt showed (1) rust-galls on Acacia pendula, asso- 

 ciated with miteH{Oribatidce), from Nevertire, N.S.W.; the galls 

 were due to a iy\ug\xii{Uromycladium, apparently U. tepperianum);. 

 and the diseased condition may be spread by the mites. (2) Leaf- 

 galls on Eucalyptus sp., caused by a species of Phytoptus; from 

 Dandenong, Vic. (3) Leaf-galls on an undetermined scrub-tree, 

 due to a mite of the same group; from Nevertire. And (4) 

 peculiar growths on the terminal shoots of young Eucalypts,. 

 possibly of fungoid origin; from Katoomba, N.S.W. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited coloured drawings of seedlings of Euca- 

 lyptus corymhosa Sra., with three cotyledons, from the Sydney 

 district; also an example of Eucalyptus patens Benth., from 

 Western Australia, with ternate juvenile leaves. 



Mr. T. H. Johnston exhibited a series of Entozoa comprising 

 the following — (l)Hydatids in the lung of a Paddymelon,i/acro«Ms 

 thetidis Less.(New England, N.S.W.), and (2) of a Wallaroo, M. 

 rohustus Gould (N.S.W.), not previously recorded from these 

 hosts; (3) Coccidkim sp., from the intestinal walls of M. thetidis 

 (N.S.W.), not previously known from this host, but apparently 

 the same as that recently found by him in a similar situation in 

 M. parryi Benn., from near Brisbane; (4) Coccidium bigeminum 

 Stiles, from the intestine of a dog(Berry, N.S.W.), a sporozoon 

 not previously recorded from Australia; in addition to the typical 



