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Podicipes novce-hollandice. — First recorded by Keartland, Proc. 



Roy. Soc, S.A., xxii., p. 191 (1898). 

 Carphibis spinicollis and Plegadis falcinellus have also been 



previously recorded, but I cannot place my hand on the 



precise reference at present. — I am, &c, 



ARCHD. J. CAMPBELL. 

 Armadale, 15th August, 1900. 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 Fungus Diseases of Citrus Trees in Australia, and 

 their Treatment. By D. M'Alpine, Vegetable Pathol- 

 ogist to the Department of Agriculture. Victoria, Mel- 

 bourne, 1899. 

 This work has recently been issued by the Victorian Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and will doubtless be of great value to that 

 section of our fruit-growers who devote themselves to the culture 

 of the citrus family, such as oranges, lemons, &c. Some nine of 

 the principal diseases are illustrated by means of twelve coloured 

 plates executed by Mr. C. C. Brittlebank, and fully described, 

 with symptoms, effects, causes, and treatment, &c. Then follow 

 technical descriptions of some eighty fungi which affect the fruit, 

 leaves, stems, or roots of the citrus family, A glossary of terms 

 used is given, also an index of distribution, with an index of the 

 common or scientific names, and finally nineteen plates con- 

 tainining 186 figures of the different features of the various fungi, 

 mostly from drawings made with the aid of the microscope. The 

 author is to be complimented upon the result of his study of 

 these obscure forms of vegetable life, which we trust will be 

 appreciated by those for whose benefit it has been prepared, and 

 the artist and printer upon the natural appearance of the coloured 

 plates. 



Monthly Progress Report, Geological Survey of 

 Victoria (New Series). — It is to be hoped that all the 

 information contained in these apparently excellent reports is 

 not of equal value with some of that given in the February 

 number (No. n) recently issued. This contains an article 

 entitled " Notes on a Collection of Alga?, Polyzoa, and Hy- 

 drozoa from San Remo (Western Port)," by James Stirling, 

 Government Geologist, in which is given a list of Algge collected 

 by Miss A. L. Stirling, and identified by the late J. Bracebridge 

 Wilson, M. A., of Geelong. The list comprises forty-four species, 

 four of which do not occur in the list of Victorian seaweeds 

 published by Mr. H. T. Tisdall in the " Proceedings of the 

 A. A. A. S. (Sydney Session)," 1898. Of the remainder the names 

 of only eleven species are spelled correctly, while of the remain- 

 ing twenty-nine species in some cases both the generic and 

 specific names are incorrectly spelled, besides which a Coralline 



