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a notice appended to the frame, that though tlie ground had 

 been covered with snow for many weeks, the bird was in good 

 condition, weighing 13f oz., which we beheve to be above the 

 average of Enghsh- killed examples. This fact is interesting as 

 helping to prove that the tide of ornithic emigration across the 

 Atlantic is not quite so one-sided as is often supposed. New South 

 Wales exhibits four cases of birds. Three of them are placed so 

 high that it is difficult to say what the species may be. But one 

 of them (No. 434), as we are informed by the Provincial Catalogue, 

 is exhibited by Lady Gipp (the birds having been mounted by 

 Mr. Leadbeater), and the other two contain 120 specimens 

 of small birds of the colony, exhibited by T. W. Crawley, Esq., 

 of Sydney. In the fourth case a pair of the Black Cockatoo 

 [Calyjjtorhynchus banksii) are stationed, feeding a young bird 

 in an open cup-shaped nest formed of moss ! We will veil 

 the name of the exhibitor of this ornithological marvel in the 

 judicious obscurity which he would certainly covet, if he knew 

 the untruthfulness to nature of which he has been guilty, 

 merely remarking that the Parrots of this group breed in 

 hollow trees. New Zealand is represented by two cases (No. 67), 

 mounted by Mr. W. Bruce, and exhibited by Mr. Edward King, 

 comprising the following species said to have been procured in 

 the province of Auckland : — 



Halcyou vagans. Anthus novae zeelandise. 

 Prosthemadera nova; zeelandise. Rhipidura flabellifera. 



Anthornis melanura. Chrysococcyx lucidus. 



Xenicus longipes. Platycercus auriceps ? 



Certliiparus senilis. Carpophaga novaj zeelandise. 



Miro toitoi. Anas superciliosa. 

 . Petroeca albifrons. 



The second case contains ten birds, amongst which we notice, 

 besides several also contained in the first, Athene nova zeelandiae, 

 Eudynamys taitensis, Fuligula nova zeelandia, and Hallus assimilis. 



From Nova Scotia, our old friend, Mr. A. Downs, sends a case 

 of Game Birds and Wild Ducks (No. 5), including nothing very 

 rare, but fully maintaining his high repute as a taxidermist. In 

 Queensland, Mr. A. Hodgson exhibits one, and Mr. C. C. Mac- 

 donald of Cadargah three cases of birds (Nos. 90, 96, 97). Among 



