54 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Phase 3, of a male that must be at least two years of age, is an 

 elegant one. I met with one on the Bass River that was quite an 

 exception to " bright plumage indicating weak power of song," for 

 it had so wonderful a voice that when I heard the ringing music I 

 felt entranced, and although years have passed, so delightful was 

 it that it still seems to ring with the full enjoyment of that time. 

 During the same week I met with a second specimen of this bird 

 with phenomenal voice at Lang Lang, but only on those two 

 occasions have I heard the strong, sweet, clear, and regular series 

 of running notes. 



Judging from specimens seen in June .and July, it is a winter 

 resident of the most southern portions of the continent. 



NOTE ON SOME VICTORIAN MARINE MOLLUSCA. 



By J. H. Gatliff. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 11th June, 1900.) 

 Odostomia petterdi, J. H. Gatliff (worn, mut.) 



1884. Obeliscus tasmanica, Petterd (non T. Woods), Jour, 

 of Conch., p. 140. 



1886. Pyramidella tasmanica, Tryon, Man. of Conch., vol. 

 viii., p. 303, there included in his list of unfigured 

 species of Pyramidella. 



Hob. — Flinders, San Remo, Western Port. 



Observations. — This shell was named by W. F. Petterd, and 

 defined as an Obeliscus. It is undoubtedly an Odostomia, and as 

 the specific name of tasmanica was used by the Rev. J. E 

 Tenison Woods in 1876 in Proc. Roy. Soc. of Tas., 1876, p. 29, 

 I have pleasure in renaming it after the finder. 



The following species have been recently found on our coast, 

 and I am not aware that they have yet been recorded as being 

 indigenous : — 



Daphnella crebriplicata, Reeve. 



Columbella (yEsopus) filosa, Angas. 



Natica nana, T. Woods. 



Eulima commensalis, Tate. 



Eulima indiscreta, Tate. 



Eulima marginata, T. Woods. 



Eulima (Hypermastus) coxi, Pilsbry. 



The three first mentioned were obtained by myself and Mr. 

 C. J. Gabriel, off Rhyll, Phillip Island, Western Port, and the 

 others by myself on the beach near Shoreham, Western Port. 



