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Island but may at once be distinguished from it in having 

 a clear well defined white line in front of the eye from its upper 

 margin to the forehead. For description see Voy. Erebus and 

 Terror, Birds of New Zealand, p. 5. 



Hah. Tasman's Bay, Cook's Straits. Native name " Igaia^ 

 In the Australian Museum we have a bird from New Zealand 

 which agrees well with the figures in Voy. Astrolabe of G. igata, 

 but has the lores blackish slate color, and no white ring round 

 the eye ; there is a tinge of olive on the sides ; from the chest 

 downwards, and under tail-coverts white ; the three outer tail 

 feathers are crossed with white on the under side, but the outer 

 two only on the upper ; the black band on the tail is much wider 

 extending over about half the feathers. 



On the Ferns of Queensland. 



By F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., Hon. Corr. Memb. Linn. Soco 



N. S. Wales. 

 I am induced to offer the following remarks to the Society 

 as a kind of addition to the seventh volume of Bentham and 

 Mueller's '■''Flora Australiensis,^^ which has just reached my hands. 

 This volume is to many of us perhaps the most interesting of 

 the whole work. The third class, Cryptogamia, is carried on to 

 the ferns, and in this department the arrangement followed has 

 been Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum. By this arrange- 

 ment, the genera Elaphoglossuf)!, Schott, Lomariopsis, Fee, Steno- 

 c/ilcena, J. Sm., Pcecilopteris, Presl. Hymenolejpis, Kaulf, of my 

 handbook are placed under the one genus, Acrostichum of Linne, 

 to which should have been added the beautiful Pcecilopteris virens, 

 T. Moore, which I found in one of the deep gullies of the Trinity 

 Bay Range. At the time I thought it was only a form of P. 

 repandum, Pr., until my mistake was pointed out to me by Dr. 

 Prentice, of Brisbane, who is certainly one of the best Pterido- 

 logists of Australia. Acrostichum pteroides, R. Br., is now added 

 to the list of Queensland ferus, as it has been found on the 

 Gilbert River, by Armit. 



