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•Gaimard in the ' Voyage de 1' Astrolabe,' Gould in his folio edition 

 of the 'Birds of Australia/ and Count Salvadori in the 'Catalogue 

 of Birds in the British Museum' (Vol. xx.), all agree in describing 

 the lower breast of B. semitorquatics as light green or yellowish- 

 green. Dr. E, P. Ramsay in his 'Catalogue of Birds in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum,' describes this part as deep yellow. Three adult 

 specimens with a broad yellow band across the lower breast are 

 exhibited; one, an adult male obtained by Mr. George Masters, 

 at King George's Sound, W.A., in January, 1869; and an adult 

 female and male obtained respectively by Mr. Tom Carter, at 

 Broome Hill, South-western Australia, in January and February, 

 1907. The other adult males have the lower breast yellowish- 

 green; one of them was procured by Mr. Carter, in the locality 

 mentioned, in July, 1906; the other is the skin of a male which Mr. 

 G. A Keartland of Melbourne, kept in confinement for ten years, 

 this specimen being furthermore distinguished by its broader red 

 frontal band. The skin of Puffinus gavia is that of an adult 

 male picked up dead on Bondi Beach, by Mr. William Earnes, 

 after an easterly gale in September, 1908. This extremely rare 

 species in Australian waters is an inhabitant of the New Zealand 

 seas, and was discovered in Queen Charlotte Sound during one of 

 Cook's voyages. It was first recorded as an Australian species 

 by Dr. P. L. Sclater (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891) from a specimen 

 presented to the British Museum by Professor Anderson Stuart, 

 the bird having been picked up alive, after a storm, at Victoria 

 Park, Newtown, Sydney, on August 2nd, 1891, by the late Mr. 

 F. J. Bourne." 



Mr. Fletclier showed a number of diptera, pronounced b}^ Mr. 

 Froggatt to be probably an undescribed species of Ceratitis, bred 

 from fruits of Loranthios pendulus Sieb., forwarded from Perth, 

 W.A., some time ago, by Dr. J. B. Cleland. The majority of 

 the fruits sent were infested with the larvje — one in each infected 

 fruit — which had eaten out the seeds more or less completel}^ 

 by the time they were readj^ to pupate. 



