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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. C. Hedley exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. F. Petterd, a 

 collection of deep-sea mollusca, corals, and holothuria. These 

 were dredged at a depth of 300 fathoms, at a point 28 miles east 

 of Sydney Heads, and included new species of Coralliophila, 

 Trophou, Ci/mcUium, Coliunbariiim, Cuspidaria, &c., and an 

 Elasipod Holothurian identified by Mr. T. Whitelegge as Pan- 

 nychia moseleyi. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited, in illustration of his paper, a 

 large collection of North-Western plants, including a grass he 

 described as new for Australia; also a chart of the North- West 

 showing the predominant vegetation in the different districts. 



Mr. North exhibited a specimen of Grass-Finch, from the 

 Northern Territory of South Australia, which he had separated 

 from Foephila acuticauda, Gould, under the name of Poephila 

 mirantiirostris.* Some time ago he had found that it had been 

 previously described by Dr. O. Heinrothf from living examples 

 in the Berlin Zoological Gardens, under the name of Poephila 

 hecki, but this was the first opportunity he had had of bringing it 

 under the notice of Members of the Society. P. au7'antiirostris, 

 North, thus becomes a synonym of Poephila hecki, Heinroth. 

 The part of Australia from which the birds were procured was 

 not known to Dr. Heinroth. The present specimen, Mr. North 

 was informed by Mr. Percy Peir, was caught with others, also 

 Masked Grass-Finches {Poejjhila per sonata, Gould) a few miles 

 from Burrundie, Port Darwin District. Mr. North had seen 

 many living examples from the same district, also from the 

 neighbourhood of Wyndham, North-western Australia. 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol.xxvii. p.207(1902). 

 t Ornitholog. Monatsb. Jahig. viii. p. 22(1900). 



