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large and robust ; a better idea of its size is conveyed by the upper 

 figure of the supposed female. The figure of tiie male is fairly 

 accurate in colour, except in the bill, cere and feet, which at all 

 times it is a difficult matter to faithfully depict from dried skins. 

 In the living example now before me a narrow line of turquoise 

 blue separates the pale-yellow feathers of the forehead from the 

 crown of the head, and the black feathers of the latter extend in 

 a central stripe on to the nape ; the bill is horn- white, faintly 

 shaded with bluish-grey at the base, and the cere, legs, feet and 

 claws are of a pale cinnabar-flesh colour. 



It is worthy of remark, that forty years elapsed between Bauer 

 making a drawing of this bird, and Elsey obtaining the first 

 specimens, and that nearly a half century has since passed away 

 Vjefore the discovery of another specimen. Only four examples 

 and a drawing of this bird during a period of eighty-two years, 

 fully entitle it to the distinction of being the rarest of all our 

 Australian Parrakeets. 



Addendum. — Since the above was in type I have received Part 

 iv. of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1898, 

 and find in the list of additions to the Gardens, that a pair of these 

 birds was purchased by the Society on the 10th of March, 1897. 



VIL— On the extension of the R.\N(;E of PH.ETON 



CANDIDUS TO NEW SOUTH W ALES and LORD 



HOWE ISLAND. 



Climatic influences are among the most important factors in the 

 distribution of species, and the recent heavy easterly gales of 

 February 10th, 11th, 12th of the present year, which caused so 

 mucii disaster to the shipping on the coast of New South Wales, 

 have been the means of increasing the number of birds included in 

 its avifauna. On the 1.5th of February an immature specimen of 

 PlicHton candidus, in the flesh, was presented to the Trustees by 

 Mr. Henry Burns, who had pii.-ked it up in a dying condition, the 

 previous day, on the shores of Botany Bay. This species was not 

 met with by Gould, neither is it mentioned in any of his works on 

 Australian birds. Dr. E. P. Ramsay has, however, in his "Tabular 

 List of Australian Birds" included Cape York and Wide Bay, 

 among the numerous localities over which it enjoys a range. 

 Previously it was not represented in the Museum by an Australian 

 specimen, but there is portion of a skin in a slightly advanced 

 stuge of immaturity from Lord Howe Island, obtained there by 

 Mr. D. Love in May 1890 ; another new locality for this species. 

 This wanderer over the intertropical zone of the Atlantic, Indian, 

 and Pacific Oceans, has been recorded, among other localities, by 

 Count Salvadori in his " Ornitologia della Papausia e delle 

 Molucche" from Florida, Cuba, Costa Rica, Jamaica, the Bermudas, 



