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sizing the statements already made." This was seconded by Mr. 

 D. Le Souef, and carried. 



The chairman drew attention to the presence of a number 

 of State school teachers who were attending the Summer School 

 instituted by the Education Department m Melbourne, and in a 

 few suitable words welcomed them to the meeting. 

 , Mr. H. T. I'isdall suitably responded on behalf of the 

 teachers. 



PAPERS. 



1. By Mr. R Hall, entitled '• Notes on a Species of Helo- 

 dromas." 



The author exhibited four Sandpipers he had received from 

 N.W. Australia, which, though resembling the description of 

 Hdodromas ochropus, Temm., in the "British Museum Catalogue," 

 were not sufficiently different to be regarded as a new species. 

 The genus, however, had not been recorded from Australia, and 

 it was therefore a new bird to Australian ornithologists. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell stated that whether the species is new or 

 not it is new to Australia, and in the winter plumage, which may 

 account for its difference from the description in the " British 

 Museum Catalogue." Messrs. G. .A. Keartland, F. G. A. Bar- 

 nard, and J. F. Haase also took part in the discussion which 

 followed, the former stating that he had shot the bird when with 

 the Calvert expedition in N.W. Australia, and it was, he believed 

 the same bird he had seen at Heidelberg some years ago. 



2. By Messrs. S. A. Le Souef and H. Bullen, entitled " Descrip- 

 tions of a New Mallophagous Parasite from Kangaroos." Com- 

 municated by Mr. D. [>e Souef, C. M.Z.S. 



The authors described a parasitic insect found on the Kan- 

 garoo, &c., which was remarkable in being only the second two- 

 clawed parasite found in a mammal, and though very similar to 

 the sub-genus Menopon, entirely confined to birds, on account of 

 its habitat they had considered it necessary to found a new genus, 

 Heterodoxus, for it. 



The chairman, Mr. 0. A. Sayce, and Mr. G. A. Keartland 

 made a few remarks on the paper. 



3. By Mr. R. Hall, " Among the Birds of Western Australia." 

 The author, in a lengthy paper, described the ornithological 



results of a trip to Western Australia. 



Messrs. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., G. A. Keartland, and A. J. 

 Campbell discussed the paper. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. J. .A. Kershaw, F.E.S., read a letter which appeared in the 

 Argus recently, complaining of the shooting of protected birds 

 during the close season, and the want of action on the part of 



