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is common upon the foliage of plants in the forest-land ; the bright red mucus 

 sloughs off when the snails are killed. And a sample of a pigment used by 

 the young people for painting their faces, when looking for a lover. — 

 Mr. North sent for exhibition five adult skins of the yellow-collared Parra- 

 keet {Barnardius semiforquatus] , and a skin of Forster's Shearwater [Puf- 

 funis garia), together with the following Note thereon — "The adult speci- 

 mens OÎ Barnadius semitorquatus show the variation in the plumage of this 

 species. Quoy and Gaimard in the 'Voyage de l'Astrolabe,' Gould in bis 

 folio edition of the 'Birds of Australia,' and Count Salvadori in the 'Cata- 

 logue of Birds in the British Museum' (Vol. xx), all agree in describing the 

 lower breast of B. semitorquatus as light green or yellowish-green. Dr. E. 

 P. Ramsay in his 'Catalogue of Birds in the Australian Museum', describes 

 this part as deep yellow. Three adult specimens with a broad yellow band 

 across the lower breast are exhibited; one, an adult male obtained by Mr. 

 George Masters, at King George's Sound W.A., in January, 1869; and 

 an adult female and male abtained respectively by Mr. Tom Carter, at 

 Broome Hill, South-western Australia, in January and February, 1907. 

 The other adult males have the lower breast yellowish- green; one of them 

 was procured by Mr. Carter, in the locality mentioned, in July, 1906; the 

 other is the skin of a male which Mr. G. A. Keartland of Melbourne, 

 kept in confinement for ten years, this specimen being furthermore distin- 

 guished by its broader red frontal band. The skin of Puffinus gavia is that 

 of an adult male picked up dead on Bondi Beach, by Mr. William Barnes, 

 after an easterly gale in September, 1908. This extremely rare species in 

 Australian waters is an inhabitant of the New Zealand seas, and was disco- 

 vered in Queen Charlotte Sound during one of Cook's voyages. It was first 

 recorded as an Australian species by Dr. P. L. S dater (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1891) from a specimen presented to the British Museum by Professor Ander- 

 son Stuart, the bird having been picked up alive, after a storm, at Victoria 

 Park, Newtown, Sydney, on August 2nd, 1891, by the late Mr. E. J. 

 Bourne." — Mr. Fletcher showed a number of diptera, pronounced by 

 Mr. Froggatt to be probably an undescribed species of Ceratitis, bred from 

 fruits 0Î Loixinthus pciidulus Sieb., forwarded from Perth, W.A., some time 

 ago, by Dr. J. B. Cleland. The majority of the fruits sent were infested 

 with the larvae — one in each infected fruit — which had eaten out the seeds 

 more or less completely by the time they were ready to pupate. — 1) Con- 

 tribution to a Knowledge of Australian Hirudinea. Part iii. By E. J. God- 

 dard, B.A., B.Sc, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. — 

 Three species are dealt with — Glossipiionia indermedia, n. sp., from a creek, 

 near Fairfield; 6r. hetcroclita^ a European and North American form, now 

 recorded as Australian also; and the common species, usually known as 

 Hirudo quinquestriata Schmarda, but which should bear the name LimnohdeUa 

 australis Bosisto , of which no adequate account had been published. — 

 2) Australian Freshwater Polyzoa. Part i. By E. J. Goddard, B.A., B.Sc, 

 Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. — Six named species, 

 representing six genera (including Alcyonella), and several unnamed forms, 

 have been recorded from Australia and New Zealand, of which three species 

 are endemic — Victorella pavida Sav. Kent, Lophopus lendeiifeldi Ridley, 

 Paludicella ehrenbergii van Beneden [New Zealand, teste Hamilton], Pluma- 

 tella aplinii McGillivray, P. prinmps Kraepelin, P. sp., and Alcyonella sp. 



