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present in nse in the island. The other was an adze of recent 

 origin of the kind of stone now used for making axes. 



WEDNESDAY, 29t]i XOYEMBEE, 1882. 



Tlie President J. C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair, 



DONATIONS. 



" Southern Science Hecord, complete set, Vol. I., Xos. 1 to 13 ; 

 Vol. II., Xos. 1 to 9. Erom J. E. Bailey Esq., of Melbourne." 



" Southern Science Becord, Vol. II., Nos. 9 and 10, Sept. and 

 October, 1882 ; " from the publishers. 



" On Eossil Chilostomatous Brjozoa from Mount G-ambier, 

 South Australia. August, 1882." By Arthur Wm. Waters, 

 E.L.S., &c. 



" Annual Eeport of the South Australian Institute, 1881-82." 



"Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Part 2, 1882." 



papees bead. 

 Description of two xew Bieds of Queensland. 



Br CiiAELEs W. De Yis, B.A. 



Eam. PAEADISEID^. 



Peionoduea, n. g. 



Beak short, shallow, with a feeble maxillary tooth and a 

 regularly arched culmen compressed over the nostrils. Nostrils 

 oval, sunken, sub-basal, partly hidden by plumes and surrounded 

 by a few weak bristles. Gape wide, feebly fringed with bristles. 

 Wing rather short, obtusely pointed — fourth quill the longest ; 

 third and fifth nearly equal. Tail moderate, of twelve feathers 

 which are subspinose at the apex. Tarsi short. Inner and outer 

 toes nearly equal. Two outer toes connected at base. 



