264 Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard on 



P. bellus, Gouldj we have not got for comparison ; but our 

 collection contains P. melanonotus, and we have found nothing 

 like it here. 



BUTORIDES JAVANICUS (Horsf.) . 



If we mistake not, Messrs. Finsch and Hartlaub, in their 

 * Ornithologie ' (p. 210), include this species as an inhabitant 

 of New Caledonia. 



87. CESTRELLATA ROSTRATA, Pcalc. 



This is the common Petrel of the country. We know of 

 several breeding-places, and have obtained young birds in 

 various stages of plumage. Our list of these birds also 

 includes 



(EsTRELLATA GAViA (Forst.) (Gray, B. Trop. Is. p. 56), and 



Procellaria CjErulea, Gmel., 

 both of which we believe we have seen close to the island 

 in our voyages to Australia. 



PuFFTNUs brevicaudus, Brandt ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 

 vol. ii. p. 459. 



We have to thank Capt. North, of the schooner ^Effie 

 Muckle,' running in the coasting trade here, for the addition 

 of this and the following species to our avifauna. We only 

 wish we could induce others *' who go down to the sea in 

 ships, and occupy their business in great waters,^^ to interest 

 themselves in our pursuit ; they little know the interest they 

 would derive from it, and how much they might benefit 

 science. 



The specimen noted was caught on the water at Honailou 

 by some fishermen, and brought to us in alcohol (rum), — 

 a male, in fine plumage. We suspect this is one of the Petrels 

 that breed in holes on Huon Island. 



Thalassidroma wilsoni. Keys, et Bias. 



Of this a pair were seen, and one shot (and brought to 

 us in alcohol by Capt. North), in the Wodin Pass, at the 

 south end of the island, on the 21st of June last. A female 

 in fine plumage. 



88. Larus nov^-hollandi^, Steph. 



If this bird is rightly identified, it breeds on Huon Island ; 



