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enced during the walk back over the paddocks to Lilydale, 

 but the rain held off until near the end of the journey to town. 



The following genera and species of Silurian fossils were 

 found during the afternoon : — 



Corals. — Rugose, simple forms, allied to Lindstrcemia or 

 Streptelasma, Pleurodictyum mcgastomum, Aulopora, sp. 



Crinoids. — Numerous stems and impressions of columnars 

 and one calyx, badly preserved. 



BrachiopodA. — Crania, sp., Orbiculoidea sp., Stropheodonta 

 alata, (?) StrophoneUa sp., Leptcena rhomboidalis, Chonetes sp., 

 Orthis elegantula, 0. cf. testudinaria, Camarotcechia sp., 

 (?) Uncinidus sp., Nucleospira australis, Atrypa reticularis, 

 Spirifer cf. crispus, S. cf. lilydalensis. 



Bivalves. — Grammysia sp.. Leptodomus sp., Nucitla taylori, 

 Palcsoneilo, 3 spp., Goniophora cf. australis. 



Gasteropods. — Carinaropsis sp.. Pleurotomaria sp., Mur- 

 chisonia, sp., Loxonema sp. 



Pteropod. — Coleolus sp. 



Cephalopod. — Cycloceras capillosum. 



Trilobites. — Calymene sp.. Goldius greenii. 



Mr. J. Searle has been good enough to look through his catch 

 of specimens collected in the quarry-hole pond, and to furnish 

 the following list : — Daphnia carinata, vars. gravis and eury- 

 cephala (nearly every specimen carrying ephippial eggs), 

 Boeckella oblonga, Cyclops l&uckarti, Cypridopsis minna. Red 

 Mites (Hydrachnidce), planarian worms. — F. Chapman. 



The Austral Avian Record. — With the first part of volume 

 iii. (June, 1915) this journal is enlarged, measuring now about 

 7^ x 10 inches, though the letter-press is almost the same size as 

 previously. The number contains a coloured plate, reproduced 

 from Watling's painting of 1790, of the bird named by Latham 

 Columba pallida, but which Mr, Gregory M. Mathews shows is 

 really a cuckoo, Cuculus pallidas. Considerable space is devoted 

 to the ornithology of the " Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles," 

 published by Levrault, Paris, 1804-30, through which several 

 alterations in the names of Australian birds are made. An 

 extinct pigeon of Lord Howe Island is described from a painting 

 by George Raper as Raperia godmanee. Part 2 (November, 

 1915) contains a coloured plate of the Brown-headed Honey- 

 eater, also reproduced from the original painting by Watling. 

 Twenty pages are devoted to the birds described in an old Dutch 

 work, "Table des Planches Enlum," of Boddaert (1783), while 

 further additions and corrections to the editor's " Reference-lisl 

 are given. Mention should also be made of the concluding pari 

 of vol. ii. (August, 1915), which consists of an exhaustive index 

 of sixty pages in double column of the scientific names contained 

 in vols. i. and ii. 



