3188 THE ZooLocist—Aveust, 1872. 
Woodcocks breeding in Wolmer Forest.—Mr. 8. Dixon, the chief warder 
of Wolmer Forest, has kindly sent me the following notice, under date of 
the 9th of May, 1872 :—‘I have seen two broods of woodcocks this spring 
in the forest, the first on the 38rd of May, and the second on the 6th. The 
brood I noticed on the 3rd consisted of three young ones and the two old 
birds, that on the 6th of four young ones with one old bird—the other, no 
doubt, close at hand. The young birds were nearly as large as the old ones, 
and flew equally well." —H. W. Feilden; Aldershot, July 2, 1872. 
Sabine’s Snipe in Scotland.—In the beginning of May I saw a specimen 
of Sabine’s snipe in the shop of Mr. Sanderson, an Edinburgh birdstuffer. 
The bird was shot in a marsh near Montrose about the 9th of March, 1872, 
by a person who brought wild-fowl to the market. Tail-feathers fourteen in 
number. This specimen is now the property of the Montrose Museum.—Id. 
Gullbilled Tern at St. Just, near Penzance.—I have just examined a 
very clean summer-plumaged female specimen of the gullbilled tern (Sterna 
anglica), which is rare on our coasts. The ovary had a large bunch of eggs 
about the size of swan-shot downwards.—Hdward Hearle Rodd; Penzance, 
July 11, 1872. 
The Barramunda, a new Ganoid Fish from Queensland.—This fish was 
first made known to Science by Mr. Gerrard Krefft, the talented and indus- 
trious curator of the Australian Museum at Sydney. He communicated 
this remarkable discovery to the Zoological Society of London, on the 28th 
of April, 1872. Years previous Mr. William Forster had informed Mr. 
Krefft that there existed in the fresh waters of Queensland a large fish with 
cartilaginous back-bone; but he was thought to be mistaken until he 
succeeded in obtaining for Mr. Krefft a specimen which, although in an 
imperfect state of preservation, removed all doubts. As soon as Mr. Krefft 
had recognized the importance of this discovery, the Trustees of the 
Australian Museum took steps to secure well-preserved specimens; they sent 
a collector into the district where the animal was known to oceur, and with 
their usual liberality despatched to the British Museum the first specimens 
they could spare, and by these Dr. Giinther has been enabled to work out 
the details of its structure. Mr. Krefft, adopting the views of Bischoff, 
Gray, Rymer Jones, and other distinguished zoologists, appears to consider 
the Barramunda, with the singular group to which it belongs, to be amphi- 
bious reptiles rather than fishes; the zoologists I have mentioned drew their 
conclusions from an examination of the two genera, Lepidosiren, a native of 
tropical America, and Protopterus, an inhabitant of tropical Africa. Ina 
paper I had the honour to read before the Linnean Society on the 15th of 
January, 1856, I endeavoured to show that this conclusion was premature. 
At p. 5020 of the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1856 a full reprint of this paper was 
