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bill from the foreliead, 1-1 from nostril, 0-7 ; from gape, 1*2 inches. 

 In form the bill is long and straight, narrow, slightly tapering and 

 very slightly curved from the base to the tip. Measurements in 

 the flesh. " Irides brown, bill black, legs bluish lead ; length, 8 J 

 inches. December 12, 1884." B. B. 



This species which I have named after its discoverer, T. H. 

 Bowyer Bower, Esq., was found in the scrubs of the Cairns 

 District, Queensland ; it is quite distinct from any of the varieties 

 of C. rufigaster, or C. parvissima of Gould. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. C. R. Wilkinson, F.G.S., exhibited a collection of recent 

 shells, which had been obtained at depths of from 24 to 60 feet in 

 sinking through the estuarine deposits of the Stockton, and 

 Bullock Island and Y^ickham Coal Pits, and the Harbour Works 

 near Newcastle. At a depth of 55 feet at Stockton a piece of 

 wood 3 feet long and 1 foot thick was also found. Some of the 

 specimens were collected by Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., Mr. 

 Cecil Darley, C.E., and Mr. J. Rossiter. One of the shells Mr. 

 Brazier stated does not now live upon the Newcastle Coast, but it 

 exists in Tasmania. A collection of shells from a similar deposit 

 at the Mary ville Colliery was exhibited before the Society a few 

 months ago by Mr. J. G. Grifiin. C.E. 



Dr. Cox remarked that amongst the sub-fossils exhibited by 

 Mi\ Wilkinson, there was to him one of special interest, he 

 referred to the Syphonalia maxirna, Tryon. Hitherto this species 

 had only been recorded from Tasmania, but he had recently 

 ascertained that it existed also on the Victorian Coast near Port 

 Phillip Heads. Dr. Cox considered that this sub-fossil tended to 

 confirm the hypothesis that a colder climate prevailed at some not 

 very remote period of this colony. The discovery also ot the 

 Valuta papulosa, and Cyprea umhilicata for the first time on our 

 coast by deep sea dredgings, and alive, led Prof. Wy ville Thompson 



