OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 377 



he found to be the case with all the males he had seen. When 

 I presented a half-grown bird of this species to the Zoological 

 Society of London in 1874, I offered four more living specimens 

 for sale at cost price, having bought them expressly for the 

 Society. I very much regret that the Society did not see its way 

 to purchase these specimens, as being young, healthy birds, valu- 

 able notes might have been made on the growth of the helmets 

 and changes of plumage, had the Society complied with my 

 request. I must say, that I was not a little surprised and 

 disgusted when I ascertained the Society refused to secure them 

 after all the trouble and expense I had beeD to respecting them ; 

 for I now find this fine species is becoming rarer and rarer every 

 day, and will very probably soon be exterminated. 



Note on Garpophaga luctuosa (Temm.) 



I take the present opportunity of correcting a mistake made in 

 the number of rectrices of this species given in my paper on the 

 birds collected by the Rev. George Brown in New Ireland and 

 Duke of York Islands.* I find the right number to be 14, and 

 not 12, as there stated. Curiously enough, all our Museum 

 specimens have only twelve, but on closer examination I find one 

 on either side has been lost from every specimen. 



EXHIBITS. 



By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. The birds alluded' to in the 

 above paper, and also a fine series of the following scarce species : 



Arses (Ophryzone) Kawpii. {Gould.*) Males, females & young. 



MachcerirJiynchus flaviv enter. Males, females & young. 



Sittella albata (Ramsay). 



Bhipidura episcopalis. Sp. nov. 



Eopsaltria nana. Sp. nov. 



Pachycephala occidentalis. Sp. nov. 

 Pardalotus assimilis — pointing out the distinction between this 

 species and P. afinis from Tasmania, which is stated was a 

 very rare bird in New South Wales, while the P. assimilis arrives 

 to breed in large numbers. 



* Proc. L. S.,N.S.W., I. p. 373. 



