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enclose a sketch of this bird and of its egg. M. Jourde found it 

 also breeding on the islands in the Brampton shoals. 



6. Charadrius ? 



Apparently identical with our Ch. xanthocheilus. I will furnish 

 you with a sketch of it by the next mail. 



7. HiATICULA ? 



Of this also I will send a sketch. 



The following birds were captured at sea by M. Jourde : — 



1. Anotjs cinereus. 



Lat. 37° 8' 10" S., long. 173° 18' 50" E., July 7, 1860. Eyes 

 blackish blue. 



2. Onychoprion panaya ? 

 Near the Brampton shoals. 



3. Xema - — ? 



This bird, which is not figured in Gould's * Birds of Australia,' 

 was captured off the coast of New Zealand, lat. 46° 54' S., long. 

 165° 58' E. I enclose a sketch of it. Head, neck, tail, and under 

 surface white ; back and wing-coverts pale silvery grey, some of 

 the feathers spotted with greyish brown, fringed with white at the 

 end. Quills, the first two black, with a large spot of white near 

 the tip of each, and minutely white-tipped; the remainder of 

 the wing-feathers white, with black band and white tip, except 

 the third feather, which is black, but also tipped with white. 



4. Procellaria h^sitata. 



Lat. 32° 10' S., long. 176° 25' 42" E., June 9, 1860. Eyes 

 blackish brown. 



5. Phaeton phcentcurus. 



Found breeding in July on the Shoals. Young bird a week old 

 of a uniform light-grey colour. 



Among the birds obtained in New Zealand, I find a Stilt 

 identical with our Australian Himantopus leucocephalus. M. 

 Jourde attaches the following note to this specimen : — 



" Get oiseau a ete tue dans Finterieur de la Nouvelle Zelande, 

 et sous une latitude de 44° &- peu pres. Gelui qui Fa abattu, et 



