<S4 XOIES AND KXHIBITS. 



1891), a specimen having been forwarded to him for identifica- 

 tion by the Rev. W. F. Frazer, Murrurundi, who found it on the 

 introduced Marruhium indgare Linn. — (2) Kochia scoparia Schr., 

 found near Glen Innes, New England, N.8.W., where it has 

 recently appeared in the pastures. This annual Chenopodiaceous 

 plant, indigenous to Greece, is cultivated in European gardens 

 for its decidedly ornamental appearance. In summer the foliage 

 is light green, and in autumn it assumes a crimson colour. 

 — (3) Abnormal inflorescence of Sechium edule Swartz, var. 

 viridis, a West Indian Cucurbitaceous plant. On several of 

 the ovaries, each containing a single pendulous ovule, the flowers 

 were didymous, some quite free and others confluent, but all the 

 stigmas were perfect, and the fruit normal The exhibitor had 

 grown the plant in his garden for many years, but never before 

 had he observed the flowers in the condition shown 



Mr. North sent for exhibition a skin of Pujfitiiis carneipes 

 Gould, from Lord Howe Island, and of P. chlororhynchos Lesson, 

 from South Solitary Island, on the northern coast of New South 

 AVales, togethei- with the following note — "The skin of P. 

 cdrneijyes is from one of three live birds presented on the 27th 

 March, 1911, to the Trustees of the Australian Museum, by Mr. 

 William Whiting of Lord Howe Island. Much confusion has 

 existed in connection with this species. Dr. E. P. Ramsay 

 referred the birds collected by Mr. Etheridge and party of 

 the Australian Museum, in August-September, 1887, on Lord 

 Howe Island, to Pnfflnus bt-evieaudus Brandt { = P- teimiroslris 

 Tem ); likewise the eggs and birds, collected by Mr. E. H. 

 Saunders, in the same locality in November of tlie same year. 

 On the 28th January, 1904, I added P. carneipes to the Lord 

 Howe Island avifauna, in the " Records of the Australian 

 Museum," Vol. v., p. 126, and found out on visiting that locality 

 in October, 1910, that P. carneipes was the common species 

 breeding in the dense palm and banyan vegetation between 

 Middle Beach and Ti-ansit Hill. P. tenuirostris does not occur 

 on Lord Howe Island, or in its vicinity. The other specimen, 

 P. chlorohrynchof, was one of several received by the Trustees 



