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of the Australian Museum from Mr. Jennings, of South Solitary 

 Island, on the 18tli November, 1878. In the Society's Proceed- 

 ings (Vol. iii., p. 406, 1879), Dr. Ramsay erroneously attributed 

 these birds, together with their eggs, which he described, 

 to P. cm-neipes. 



Mr. North also contributed the following note on a further 

 description of the genus Ashbyia. " In the March, 1911, number 

 of the " Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales," I briefly- 

 characterised the genus Ashbyia, which may now be amplified. 

 Bill about half as long as head, nearly straight, comparatively 

 deep, but Jaroader than deep at nostril, the upper mandible 

 arched and gently decurving towards the tip; wings nearly twice 

 the length of tail, the first primary very short, the third longest, 

 the second and fourth nearly equal; the longest upper tail-coverts 

 half the length of tail-feathers; tarsus comparatively slender, 

 about half the length of tail-feathers; middle toe the longest, 

 and, without the claw, equal in length to the hind toe with claw. 

 The genus Ashbyia is allied to £Jphthianu7'a, but the latter may 

 be distinguished by its more slender and pointed bill, its shorter 

 wing and different wing-formula, and by its longei- upper tail- 

 coverts." 



