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extensive geographical distribution, having been recorded over 

 the greater portion of the Old World, the Malay Archipelago, 

 New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand ; the little 

 Black Cormorant Graculus sulcirostris, Brandt, inhabiting the 

 Australian and Austro-Malayan Region, and the White-headed 

 Stilt, Ilimantopiis leucocephalus, Gould, occurring likewise in 

 Australia, the Austro-Malayan Region, and New Zealand ; the 

 latter is not in fully adult plumage, and shows an admixture of 

 smoky black feathers intermingled with the white on the crown of 

 the head and occiput, a not uncommon variety in this species in 

 its first season's plumage, a similar one having been obtained last 

 year on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum by Mr. 

 T. R. Icely, the Visiting Magistrate at Lord Howe Island ; also a 

 specimen of the Black-billed Spoonbill, Platalea melanorhyncha, 

 Reichenbach, found also in Northern, North-eastern, and North- 

 western Australia, both of which have not previously been 

 recorded from that island. In the early part of this month 

 another specimen of Nimantopus leucocephalus was presented to 

 the Trustees by the Rev. Joseph Annand, M.A., of Tangoa, Santo 

 in the New Hebrides, with a label attached— " Obtained at 

 Tangoa, Santo, May 4th, 1892, not common here," showing that 

 this interesting nomad has during a very short period been found 

 in three hitherto unrecorded and widely separated localities. 



