^°\gi^' ] Notes and Notices. yy 



ganui, N.Z., was elected a member of the Council to represent 

 New Zealand. Unfortunately, Mr. Marriner has since died. 

 He was apparently a strong and healthy young man, with every 

 prospect of a long and useful career. He was confined to his 

 bed for a month, and during that period had three operations 

 for appendicitis and other troubles, and ultimately succumbed 

 on 25th February to septic poisoning. The loss of one so 

 young and strong has been a great sorrow to his relations, to 

 whom the Council, on behalf of the members of the A.O.U., 

 desires to offer its sincere condolence. A recent work of Mr. 

 Marriner, " The Kea : a New Zealand Problem," was favourably 

 noticed in 7Vie Eviu {vide vol. viii., pp. 229-231). 



From the Minutes of the B.O.C, 15/12/09:— 



Mr. G. M. Mathews remarked that the two following 

 names should be added to his work " Handlist to the Birds of 

 Australasia," 1908 : — 



On p. 1 1 add : 



LOPHOPHAI'S leucogaster, Gould. 



On comparing the white-breasted LopJiophaps from Central 

 Australia with examples from other parts of Australia, it will 

 be found that the former have a much larger bill and thicker 

 tarsi. 



On p. "](> add : 



ACANTHIZA AUSTRALIS, North. 



Mr. North, in his book " Nest and Eggs of the Birds found 

 breeding in Australia and Tasmania," pointed out the 

 differences between this bird and A. reguloides, Vig. & Horsf., 

 from New South Wales. Skins in Mr. Mathews' collection, 

 proved that the characters pointed out by Mr. North were 

 reliable. 



Mr. Mathews added that on p. 5 the following alteration 

 should be made : — Drouumis peroni, Roths., must stand as D. 

 parvulus, Gould [ Penny Cyclop., xxiii., p. 145 (1842) ]. 



Mr. Mathews also described and exhibited an example of 

 a new sub-species of Grass-Wren, which he proposed to call 



Amytornis whitei, sub-sp. n. 



Differs from A. striatus, Gould, in being larger in all its 

 measurements, the bill being especially large. It is also redder 

 on the back and underparts. 



Hab. — Coongan R., North-western Australia. This form is 

 named in honour of Mr. H. L. White. — Bulletin B.O.C, 

 No. clvi. 



From the Minutes of the B.O.C, 16/3/10: — 

 Dr. E. Hartert exhibited examples of a new form of 

 Acanthi::a, and made the following remarks : — 



