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und noch Anderes, im Großen und Ganzen Sonderungen eines ein- 

 heitlichen Zuges der Organisation sein mögen. 



Fortgesetzte Untersuchungen, an denen ich mich selbst noch zu 

 betheiligen hoiFe, werden vielleicht Klarheit darüber bringen, ob oder 

 in wie weit die vorgetragene Meinung Stich hält. »Opinionum com- 

 menta delet dies.« 



III. Mittlieilimgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



27^^ July, 1887. — 1) Botanical. — 2) Pathological. — 3) Note on 

 the Discovery of Peripattis in Victoria. By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 

 Until Mr. Tryon announced the re-discovery of Peripatus in Queensland last 

 year, the Australian species appears to have been known only from the type 

 specimen (or specimens) of P. Leuckartii described by Sänger, in 1869, as 

 from New Holland. The occurrence of what is probably Sanger's species, so 

 far south as Gippsland, where a specimen was obtained a few weeks ago by 

 Mr. R. T. Baker, is therefore of sufficient interest to be recorded as showing 

 its wide distribution at any rate in Eastern Australia. It has fifteen pairs of 

 claw-bearing appendages, in which respect and also in having a distinct but 

 short conical tail apparently with the anal opening terminal, it resembles P. 

 Novœ-Zelandiœ. — 4) On some new Trilobites from Bowning, N.S.W. By 

 John Mitchell. Descriptions of a new species of each of the genera Cyphaspis, 

 Bronteiis, and Proetus are here given, together with the particulars about their 

 occurrence in the Bowning beds, which are of Silurian age. — 5) On the 

 Oology of the Austro-Malayan and Pacific regions. By A. J. North. The 

 eggs of twenty-six species of birds from the above regions are here described. 

 — 6) Notes on a Species of Rat [Mtts Tompsoni , Rams.), infesting the 

 Western portion of N. S.W. By K. H. Bennett. An account is here given 

 of the countless swarms of rats which in April last infested the whole country 

 west of the main road from Booligal to Wilcannia. They were all travelling 

 in a southerly direction, journeying by night, and hiding by day in rabbit 

 warrens, fissures in the ground, t&c. : flooded rivers did not turn them from 

 their course. In 1864 the same part of the colony was similarly invaded by 

 rats. — Dr. Ramsay exhibited the following birds : — Collocalia spodiopygia^ 

 Peale, with its nest, from New Guinea; Acanthylis Novœ-Guineœ, from the 

 Aird River, collected during Mr. Bevan's recent Expedition; Pycnoptilus floc- 

 cosus, Gld., from near Sydney; and a remarkable variety oi Amadina Lathami, 

 Gld. , with the upper tail-coverts orange, also from the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney. — Mr. Masters exhibited specimens oî Platycercus eximius, Vig. 

 and Horsf., and P. Pennantii, Gld., and a specimen of what he believed to 

 be an undoubted hybrid between these species. This bird, which was shot at 

 Wingelo near Goulburn out of a flock of P. Pennantii, has the general plu- 

 mage of P. eximius with the blue cheeks and broad bill of the other species. 

 — Mr. Macleay exhibited for the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, some spe- 

 cimens of edible birds nests from Culion, Calamianes Group, Philippines. 

 The nests were the productions of a small swallow — Collocalia Philippina, 

 and the collection of them for the Chinese market, formed an important in- 



