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2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of Proceedings, September 27th, 1905. — Mr. North sent 

 for exhibition a skin and set of two eggs of Melithrejitus albiffularis Gould. 

 They were obtained at Copmanhtirst on the Clarence River, Nev. South 

 Wales, by Mr. George Lavidge, who also forwarded a nest he had procured 

 on the 22nd instant. Altogether three birds in the flesh had been received. 

 Previously this species had not been recorded from further south than Wide 

 Bay, Queensland. In the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum (Vol. IX), 

 Dr. H. Gadow regards M. alhigularis as only subspecifically distinct from 

 M. lunulatus Shaw. There is, however, no intergradation between these 

 two birds, and in addition to the olive-yellow upper parts, and white chin 

 of 3f. albigularis . it is furthermore distinguished by having the bare skin 

 above and behind the eye dull greenish-blue, which in 31. lunulatus is rich 

 orange-scarlet. Mr. >.'orth also recorded seeing an Albatross ['Dmlassogeron 

 cautus) on the 22nd ult. at the entrance of Lavender Bay. It was resting on 

 the water not far from Milson's Point, but on the approach of a ferry steamer 

 it flew towards Darling Harbour, then circled round, passing Milson's Point, 

 and settling down again on the water in Farm Cove. During August one of 

 these birds was received by the Trustees of the Australian Museum which was 

 captured alive by Mr. R. S. Thomas, of South Clifton. Of curious nesting 

 sites of the Rock Warbler, Origina r?<ôn"cate Latham, Mr. A. F. Hull informed 

 Mr. North that a pair had built their nest round a piece of string hanging 

 down inside from the roof of a tent at Freshwater, Manly. This tent, the 

 entrance to which was jDartially concealed by a rock shelter , was occupied 

 from Saturday to Monday, and eveiy other night by several youths, but the 

 birds, unconcerned at their presence, had finished the nest, and the female 

 had since the 17th inst. been sitting on a full complement of eggs. Last 

 year Mr. Herbert E. Ross informed him a pair had built their nest in a small 

 cave that had been fitted up as a dark-room for photographers, in the rocky 

 and spacious grounds of a well known resort at Medlow on the Blue Moun- 

 tains. At Lane Cove Mr. Arthur Muddle found a nest last year attached 

 to the timbers beneath the verandah of a waterside cottage, and in the same 

 locality several seasons ago Mr. Edgar R. Waite saw^ anest. containig young, 

 attached to the roof inside a bathing-box at Longueville. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Prof. Dr. E. Ballowitz in Münster wurde zum ordentlichen Prof. 

 der Zoologie und von der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität 

 Greifswald zum Dr. phil. honoris causa ernannt. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



