president's address. 1327 



teeth of OrnitJio7'hynchus, concludes that it is probable that the 

 said Multituberculata are allied more nearly to the Monotremes 

 than to the Marsupials, 



The Foetal Membranes of Marsupials are treated by Mr. 

 Osborn in the Journal of Morphology, I. p. 2. 



Birds. 



Linnean Society, N.S. W". — Cox and Hamilton, North, Bennett. 



Royal Society, Tasmania. — Anseranas melanoleuca in Tas- 

 mania. W. F. Petterdj Ghihea hracteata in Tasmania. Col. 

 Legge. 



Royal Society, Queensland. — Vol. V. Australian Ancestry 

 of the Crowned Pigeon of New Guinea ; CoLluricincla sibila, new 

 species, description. Vol. VI. : Geosichla citneata, new species ; 

 Sericornis gutturalis, new species, description ; On Pvionodura 

 Newtoniana ; Acanthiza squa'inata, new species ; Pachycephala 

 fretorum, new species, description. C. W. De Yis. 



New Zealand Institute. — Yol. XX. : Ornithological Notes ', 

 Lohivanellus ijersonatus in New Zealand. T W. Kirk. Vol. 

 XXI. : On some Birds from the Kermadec Islands ; On Diomedea 

 cauta. T. F. Cheeseman ; On Diomedea exidans. A. Reischek ; 

 On Sida fusca. A. Hamilton ; On Athene Novce ZealandicE. 

 W. Colenso ; Birds of Lake Brunner district. W. W. Smith j 

 On AjMryx Bidleri, new species. R. Bowdler Sharpe ; On 

 Notornis Mantelli in West Otago. James Park ; On some New 

 Zealand Birds. T. W. Kirk. 



Victorian Naturalist V. — Oology of Australian Birds, Supple- 

 ment, Part 5. A. J. Campbell. 



Reptiles and Amphibia. 



Linnean Society, N.S.W. — J. Douglas Ogilby, J. J. Fletcher, 

 W. J. McKay, C. AV. De Vis, E. P. Ramsay. 



Royal Society, Queensland. — Vol. V. : Micidia orientalis, new 

 species, description. Vol. VI. : Neospades^ a new genus of 

 Natricidse. C. W. De Vis. 



