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together for about one-third of their length, the attachment com- 

 mencing close to the neck. 



Mr. North sent for exhibition a specimen of Muniaflavijivymna, 

 Gould, from the Australian Museum Reference Collection. The 

 Trustees also possess a living example of this, the rarest of all 

 Australian Finches. It was captured with a flock of Donacicola 

 castaneothorax, Gould, in the Northern Territory of South Aus- 

 tralia, in December, 1903. A skin was also exhibited of FoeiDhila 

 atropggialis (Diggles), Castelnau and Ramsay,* from the Norman 

 River, Gulf of Carpentaria. Poephila nigi^otecta, Hartert,t is a 

 synonym of this species. 



* P.L.S.N.S.W., Vol. i., p. 382 (1877). 

 t Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Ibis, 1899, p. 647. 



