OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 39 



adult males in full plumage, yet when the breeding places, 

 and strongholds of the New Zealand bird be found, adult males 

 in the summer plumage, resembling that dress of the N. S. W. 

 birds, may nevertheless be procured. I trust some of our New 

 Zealand ornithologists will give this matter the attention it 

 deserves, for it will be important to note the form of the sternum 

 and trachea, with its htdla ossea, both in the male and female. 

 In Anas castanea the hulla ossea is said to be found in both sexes. 

 (See F.Z.S., 1871, p. 649). 



Gerygone flavida, Bamsay. P.L.8., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 53. 



I have lately seen specimens of a Gerygone from the North 

 East Coast, which seem to indicate that my Gerygone flavida is 

 only the female of Mr. Gould's Gerygone personata ; but notwith- 

 standing the great similarity in size and plumage, further proof 

 will be necessary, as we have lately received the adults, male and 

 female, of G. flavida, shot on taking their nest and eggs, and three 

 males examined are exactly alike in plumage to the female ; but 

 it is not improbable that the young males of G. jpersonata 

 resemble the females in plumage, and breed before attaining the 

 adult male livery. No specimens, however, in the plumage of the 

 adult (^ of G. loersonata have been obtained yet from E-ockingham 

 Bay. 



Additional New Species, d;c. Habitat. 



Ceacticus spaldingi, Masters., P.L.S., 



N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 271 Port Darwin 



EopsALTRiA NANA, Ramsay., P.L.S., N.S.W., 



Vol. II., p. 373 Rockingham Bay 



Ptilotis GERMAN a, Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 



Vol. III., p. 2 Islands of Torres Straits and 



S. Coast of New Guinea 



Majaqueus parkinsoni, Gray., Voy. Ereb. 



and Terr East Coast of Australia 



ZosTEROPS WESTERNENSis, Quoy et Galni. Voy, 



Astrol. , PI. 1 1, fig. 4, Zool. Ois., p. 215 ... West Australia 



= ? Zosterops gouldii, from same Habitat 



