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recorded for N.W. Victoria, and Haloragis elata, unrecorded for 

 S.W. Victoria. 



By Mr. A. O. Sayce. — A large crab, Pseudocarcinus gigas, from 

 Portland, and other Crustacea (preserved), in illustration of his 

 papers. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Swimming Crab from Sandringham. 



By Messrs. Tisdall and Maplestone. — Orchid, PrasophyUum 

 despectans, J. Hooker, collected at Eltham, 8/7/1900. 



By Mr. C. Walter. — Dried plants, Scirpus prolifer, new for 

 Victoria, from Fyan's Creek, Hall's Gap, Grampians, collected 

 by Mr. St. Eloy d'Alton, previously known only from New 

 South Wales, extending from Port Jackson to New England ; 

 Carex longifolia, Glenelg River, new for S.W. Victoria, collected 

 by Mr. H. B. Williamson ; Correct aemula, Mount Buck, Orbost 

 district, East Gippsland, collected by Mr. Ed. E. Prescott, pre- 

 viously recorded in Victoria from the Grampians only. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS- 

 ADDITIONAL RECORDS. 

 By Robert Hall. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists'' Club of Victoria., 9th April, 1900.) 



During a recent visit to Western and South Australia I noticed 

 in the museums in Perth and Adelaide a number of birds, col- 

 lected in their respective colonies, of species which had not been 

 recorded in my recent work, " A Key to the Birds of Australia 

 and Tasmania," as occurring in the areas corresponding to those 

 colonies. These are additional to Dr. Ramsay's " Tabular List 

 of Australian Birds," 1888, and Mr. A. J. Campbell's critical 

 review of it published in the Victorian Naturalist, vol. v., page 

 78; and further additions were afterwards published by Mr. 

 Campbell in the " Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh." The majority of the skins of the species mentioned I 

 have handled, while fifteen species are included on the authority 

 of Dr. Morgan, Adelaide, Mr. Thomas Carter, Western Australia, 

 and Mr. S. W. Jackson, New South Wales, who have personally 

 identified skins of species in the respective areas in which they 

 live. Certain other species have already been referred to in a 

 paper read by me at the meeting of the Australasian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science held in Melbourne in January 

 last. 



The areas concerned in these additional records are : — 3, South 

 Queensland, including Richmond and Clarence Rivers, N.S.W. ; 

 6, adjacent areas of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Aus- 

 tralia ; 8, North-West Australia ; and 9, Western Australia. 



Many of the birds now recorded for area 6 appear in Dr. 



