THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



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List of Alg^e found at Kerguelen's Land by Robert 

 Hall, named by Prof. T. Reinhold, of Itzehoe. 



Fhmvuyceje — 



Adenocystis lessoni 

 Macrocystis pyrifera 

 Desmarestia viridis 

 *D. chordalis 

 D- (unknown) 

 Lessonia (? unknown) 

 Chlorophyce^ — 



Enteromorpha bulbosa (var.) 

 E. bulbosa 



Porphyra umbilicaulis 

 Ulva lactuca 

 Cladophora Hookeriana 

 C. (variety) 

 Floride^ — 

 Rhodomelese — 



Polysiphonia flabelliformis 

 Rhodoraelia (unknown) 

 Bostrichia vaga, Hook, and 

 Har. 

 Corallinacese — 



Melobesia antarctica, Har. 

 Rhodophyce^ — 



Ceramium rubrum (var.) 



C. rubrum 

 Ballia callitriche 



Bonnemaisoniese — 

 Ptilonia magellanica 

 Delisea pulchra 



D. elegans 



Floride^ (cojitiiiued) — 

 Sphoerococcoidese — 



Sarcodia (or Merostheca) 

 S. (a variety) 

 Rhodomeniese — 

 *Epymenia variolosa 

 Rhodomenia (unknown) 

 Gigartinacese — 



Callophyllis (unknown, in- 

 ter C. tenera and C. 

 variegata) 



C. variegata 

 Gigartina (unknown) 

 G. radula 

 Ahnfeldtia plicata 

 A. concinna 



Delesseriese — 

 Delesseria lyalli 



D. epiglossum 

 D. Tasmanica 

 D. (unknown) 

 D. crassinaria 

 Nilophyllum (unknown) 



Cryptonemiacese — 

 Iridea micans 

 I. micans (variety) 

 Schizymena (unknown) 

 Acanthacoccus antarcticus 



* Peculiar to the island. 



SOME SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



By Robert Hall. 



{Read 'before the Field Naturalists'' Cluh of Victoria, I3th March, 1899.) 



From the time of the publication of Gould's " Handbook " in 

 1865 up to 1888, when Dr. Ramsay's " Tabular List of Australian 

 Birds " appeared, not a single new species peculiar to the South- 

 West had been obtained (Ramsay). Since that date I know of no 

 additional species having been revealed, so that it is of interest 

 now to have some preliminary remarks on what may prove to be 

 possibly one new species under further research. The skins 

 referred to are from the Kalgoorlie district, and have been sent 



