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Crystal Palace Show, where it was believed to be a " hybrid " 

 and received only second prize. The same bird was again exhibited, 

 but at the Great National Show, where this time its rarity was 

 recognized by being awarded the special prize for the rarest bird 

 in the show, besides gaining first prize in its class. 



The Bourke Grass-Parrakeet. — The Rev. H. D. Astley, 

 M.B.O.U., with a coloured figure and an article on this lovely 

 Australian Parrakeet [Neophenia bourkei), occupies the first place 

 in The Avicultnral Magazine for June. Judging by the Bourke 

 Grass-Parrakeet in captivity, Mr. Astley believes it is more closely 

 related to the Warbling Grass-Parrakeet or " Budgerigar " {Melop- 

 sittacus undulatus) than it is to any member of its genus {Neophema). 

 The male has quite the pretty warbling song resembling that of the 

 " Budgerigar," but softer, with no shrill interludes, and the call- 

 note is also like the " Budgerigar's," but also softer. Mr. Astley 

 states that the forehead of the male is blue, while the female has no 

 blue, but a very narrow whitish band over the cere. She is also 

 distinguished from her mate by the lacing on the wings being much 

 less defined. A small consignment of these rare roseate-breasted 

 little Parrakeets recently reached Adelaide from the interior. 



The BarRED-KUMPEU Godwit.^ Professor Herm. Johansen, 

 of the University of Tomsk, met with this species on a trip to 

 the Kulunda Steppe, Western Siberia, in the summer of 1902. 

 He writes in the Sept.-Dec, 1904, issue of the OrjiithologiscJies 

 JaJirbuck : — " The material obtained on our first excursions 

 yielded an important result for the knowledge of geographical 

 distribution. Liuiosa novce-zealandi(B (Gray) till now known as 

 breeding on the tundras of Eastern Siberia, and visiting as a 

 migratory species the western-shores of the Pacific Ocean as far 

 as Australia and New Zealand, turns out to be breeding near 

 the Obi in 531^ N. lat. in Western Siberia. How little have the 

 limits of the breeding places of our birds been explored, and 

 how many gaps there are still to be filled ! " 



Birds of N.-W. Australia. — It is noted from The Ibis 

 (April, 1905) that the list of birds obtained by Mr. J. S. Tunney 

 for the Tring Museum in North-West Australia and Arnheim 

 Land contains 221 species and sub-species, of which the follow- 

 ing arc said to be new : — Collynocincla woodzvardi, Cracticus 

 quoyi tutineyi, Gyinnor/nna tibia n iongirostris, P(ZcUodryas 

 cinereiceps, and Myzomela obscura grisescens. It would therefore 

 appear that, in spite of all the " immigration restriction," 

 trinomial nomenclature has got into Australia after all 1 1 he 



