BY ALFRED J. NORTH. 521 



about ten yeai's ago. Since their stay on the island Mr. T. K. 

 Icely, the Visiting Magistrate, has on behalf of the Trustees of 

 the Australian Museum acquired from the islanders many rare 

 specimens^ but not a parrakeet amongst them. 



For the past ten years or more on Norfolk Island Dr. P. H. 

 Metcalfe has assiduously worked up the avifauna of his island 

 home by collecting the birds, nests, and eggs, many of which, 

 exhibited before this Society, had not been previously recorded 

 from Norfolk Island. 



So far as these insular dependencies of New South Wales are 

 concerned, it will be seen that no opportunity has been lost of 

 obtaining specimens or gaining information that would contribute 

 to our knowledge of the avifaunas of Lord Howe and Norfolk 

 Islands. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVI. 



Fig. 1. — Head of Cyanorhnm2)hus novce-zealandue, Sparrm. 

 Fig. 2. — Head of Cyanorhamphis cooM, G. R. Gray. 



