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Colonel Legge's list. It is true that some may be only stragglers, 

 yet Dr. Ramsay must admit them on the same grounds as he has 

 done Ftilopus siLperbtis and Lopholaimus antarcticiis. 



665. Dendrocygjia vagaiis is a Victorian duck. There are 

 splendid examples mounted in the National Museum since 

 1884. 



678. Podiceps iiovce-hollandice is found in the Dawson district, 

 where its eggs ha,ve also been taken. 



682. Eudyptidatindina. Since the National Museum possesses 

 specimens taken in Port Phillip, the fairy penguin should 

 undoubtedly have been debited to Victoria on Dr. Ramsay's 

 list. 



688. Stercorarius crepidatus. In passing, I should like to state 

 it has been published that, amongst other birds not mentioned in 

 any previous lists to Dr. Ramsay's, is the above species. I beg 

 to remind members that it duly appeared in the Club's printed 

 list of Victorian birds in the Naturalist, August, 1884, and that 

 the presence of a second skua in Australia was first recorded 

 by me in the Southern Science Record, vol. III. {18S3), page 256. 



690. Sterna caspia should be added to West Australia. I have 

 seen eggs of this tern from that part recently, and Gould records 

 it for the same locality. 



691. Sterna anglica is undoubtedly Victorian. Specimens 

 have appeared mounted in the National Museum for a length of 

 time ; also, it will be remembered, I exhibited, last year, eggs of 

 the long-legged tern, taken in Victoria. Therefore, it is hoped 

 that on Dr. Ramsay's next list he will restore to us this interesting 

 tern. 



731. Puffinus niigax. This petrel may be included in the 

 Tasmanian list if Dr. Ramsay thinks the fact of the Club's 

 expedition having identified it off King Island is sufficient 

 evidence. Besides, as the allied petrel frequents the Victorian 

 coast, it is reasonable to suppose it is also found on the other 

 side of the Strait. 



84. Artamus cinerens ; 108. Cracticics torquatus ; 146. Collyrio- 

 civcla rufigaster ; 294. Estrilda bicheiiovii ; 536. Phaps chalcoptera ; 

 596. Tot amis canes cens ; 619. Geronticus spiiiicoliis ; 6';^. Podiceps 

 nest or ; 746. Plot^is novcE.-holla7idice ; 754. Graculns melanoleiiciis ; 

 and 755. G. stictocephalus. All these species were enumerated 

 on a " List of Birds collected at Derby (N.W.A.) by the late T. 

 H. Boyer-Bower, Esq., with Notes," by Dr. Ramsay. See 

 P.L.S. of New South Wales, vol. II. (1887). It would, indeed, 

 be interesting to learn why the eleven species were omitted from 

 the doctor's present list without given reasons. The absence of 

 any explanation greatly embarrasses those who, like myself, are 

 studying a subject so full of fascinating interest and of instruc- 

 tion as the geographical distribution of Australian birds. 



