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This species was first recorded for New South Wales, at a meeting of this 

 Society, on 28th June, 1905, when 'Sir. A. J. North exhibited a skin from 

 the Tweed Kiver, killed in August, 1902; and gave additional records of spe- 

 cimens from Gympie, Wide Bay, Port Denison, and Cairns iu Queensland. 

 It is frequently seen in collections from the Northern Territory, and that, even 

 if not a regular migrant, it is a frequent visitor to Australia, and possibly to 

 New South Wales. In Mathew's "Hand-List of the Birds of x\ustralia", it is 

 described as "accidental" for New South Wales, and the Northern Territory 

 is omitted from the distribution. The birds exhibited were in company with 

 two others of the same species, moving unobtrusively among the heavy scrub- 

 timber; and constitute the most southerly record for the species. The stomachs 

 contained half-digested larvae of a large hawkmoth. They were not heard to 

 utter any note. The specimens recorded from New South Wales are all fe- 

 males, which may indicate that this sex is more adventurous in its migrations 

 than the male. It is interesting to note that the birds in question were obtai- 

 ned in April, when they would naturally be expected to have reached the 

 Asiatic end of their range. — Mr. Basset Hull exhibited a skin and an egg 

 of the "Big Hill Mutton Bird" of Lord Howe Island, and a skin and an egg 

 of Oestrelata neglecfa Schlegel, from the Kermadec Islands. The Lord Howe 

 species is referred to under the specific name of the Kermadec bird in Mr. 

 Hull's paper on the Birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands (Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, 1209, XXXIV., p. 649), but he there expressed the opinion 

 that the Lord Howe bird is a distinct species. This opinion is verified by a 

 comparison of the two specimens exhibited, and by a fuller account, recently 

 received from a resident, of the habits, and by examination of a series of the 

 eggs of the Lord Howe bird. This is not only distinct from Oe. ncglecta, but 

 it is an undescribed species; and the exhibitor proposed to describe it in a 

 further contribution to the Proceedings. — Mr. A. S. Le Souëf showed a 

 male Wallaroo [Malrojms rohnsfKs] which had been castrated when young. 

 The usual colour of the male is black, and of the female light grey; but this 

 gelded male, which has been in the Zoological Gardens, Sydney, for some 

 years, is light grey like the female, yet otherwise possesses the usual mascu- 

 line characters, for example, larger size and stouter build. He showed, also, 

 a photograph of three Carpet Snakes of New South Wales [Fj/tlto?i variegata) 

 illustrating the great variation in this species; two well marked ty])es and a 

 transversely striped intermediate form were represented; one of the former is 

 widely distributed, the other is more restricted (county of Cumberland and 

 about 150 miles round); but the latter is comparatively rare; the specimen 

 photographed came ftom Foster, N.S.W. — 3) Description of a fossil Chiton 

 [Mollusca] from North-West Tasmania. By A. F. Basset Hull. — The de- 

 scription is based on an example of a mediae valve, which shows the species 

 to have been allied to, but distinguishable from Lorica afftnis Ashby and 

 Torr, and the living Ìj. rolrox Beeve. The specimen was collected by Mr. 

 W. S. Dun from the base of the Turritella sandstone at the foot of a bluff 

 between Wynyard and Table Cape. The beds are referred to the Jan-Jukian, 

 by Hall and Pritchard; that is to say, they are near the base of the Tertiary, 

 as developed in Southern Australia. Victorian geologists correlate them with 

 the marine series at Spring Creek. The Eocene age attributed to these beds 

 must be regarded as purely relative. 



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