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Conidia similarly coloured or paler, elliptic-oblong, i -septate, 

 slightly constricted at septum, one half usually broader than the 

 other, finely granular contents, 15 x 5^ — 6 fx. 



On living leaves of Epacris impressa, Labill. August, 1900. 

 Caulfield (C. French, F.L.S.) 



The creeping hyphse ramify through the tissue of the leaf, and 

 ultimately protrude through the epidermis. 



This species differs from G. epiphyllum, Mart., in appearing on 

 the upper and not usually on the under surface of the leaf, in the 

 more or less globose tufts, and in the regularly i-septate spores. 



ADDITIONS TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 

 OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 

 By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., 

 Ornithologist, Australian Museum, Sydney. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' 1 Club of Victoria, 14£/j Jan., 1901.) 

 Recently Dr. W. Macgillivray, of Hamilton, Victoria, has kindly 

 sent me for inspection some bird skins collected by his brother, 

 Mr. A. S. Macgillivray, at Leilavale station, on the Fullarton 

 River, near Cloncurry, in the Gulf District of Queensland. The 

 pallid appearance of many specimens from this torrid part of 

 the country is remarkable when compared with examples of 

 the same species from the southern half of the continent. 

 In this respect it resembles the avi-fauna of North-West 

 Australia, many species of which are common to these two widely 

 separated districts. 



Ptilotis keartlandi was one of the novelties secured in 1894 by 

 the Horn expedition in Central Australia. Later on, in 1896-7, 

 Mr. G. A. Keartland, while a member of the Calvert Exploring 

 Expedition, obtained four more specimens near Derby, King 

 Sound, thus extending its range to North-West Australia. It was 

 also observed by the members of the expedition south of Separa- 

 tion Well in Western Australia. It is with pleasure that I again 

 observed an example of this species in the collection formed by 

 Mr. Macgillivray in the Gulf District of Queensland, thus extend- 

 ing the range of this comparatively recently described bird almost 

 across the northern portion of the Australian continent. Another 

 honey-eater in the collection is Myzomela nigra, which hitherto, 

 I believe, has not been recorded from Queensland. Emblema 

 picta is yet another addition to the avi-fauna of the Gulf District. 

 For many years this species was regarded only as an inhabitant of 

 the northern and north-western portion of the continent, but from 

 specimens procured of comparative recent date its range has 



