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been extended to Central Australia* and New South Wales.f 

 I was somewhat surprised to meet with a skin of Ephthianura 

 aurifrons from this district, as it has not been recorded either by 

 Gould or Dr. Ramsay from Queensland. The type of E. crocea 

 was obtained by Mr. Gulliver at Normanton, not very far distant. 

 There were several skins of Ptilotis leilavalensis, also a set of three 

 of its eggs taken by Mr. A. S. Macgillivray, and from the same 

 nest an egg of the Pallid Cuckoo, Cuculus pcdlidus. 



From Mr. Tom Carter I have received for identification a skin 

 of Acanthiza uropygialis, obtained by him at Point Cloates, 

 Western Australia ; hitherto this species has not been recorded 

 from the western portion of the continent. 



While recently at the National Museum, Melbourne, I 

 examined a skin of Graucalus hypoleucus that was obtained by 

 Mr. J. L. Ayres about ioo miles east of Wyndham, on the 

 Cambridge Gulf, North Australia. The nearest locality to the 

 above in which this species has been recorded is Port Darwin, 

 in the Northern Territory of South Australia, 



Mr. J. A. Thorpe, the taxidermist of the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, has also kindly brought me for examination a mounted 

 specimen of a young male Lamprotreron superbus that was shot 

 on the 14th March, 1900, at Boloco station, Buckley's Crossing, 

 New South Wales. This is situated in the Snowy River district, 

 near the southern boundary of the colony, and over 2,000 feet 

 above the level of the sea. In the "Old Collection" of the 

 Australian Museum is a specimen of this bird marked " Ptilinopus 

 superbus, North Shore, Sydney," a locality which Dr. Ramsay 

 regarded with very much doubt as to its accuracy, for in his 

 " Tabular List of Australian Birds " he did not record this 

 species from farther south on the Australian continent than 

 Port Denison in Queensland. The present specimen of L. 

 superbus is the only properly authenticated one I have seen 

 that was obtained in New South Wales. 



The above brief notes refer only to specimens that I have very 

 recently examined. Full reference will be made to other additions 

 in " Australian Museum Catalogue — Nests and Eggs of Aus- 

 tralian Birds," new edition, part i., now in the press. While, 

 however, on the subject I may as well mention that among 

 specimens sent me for examination Gerygone culicivora has been 

 obtained near Bourke, also its nest and eggs for the past two 

 seasons near Dubbo ; Strepera fuliginosa and Ptilotis ornatus 

 near Booligal ; and Tadorna radjah on the Macquarie River, 

 near Narramine. I also observed a flock of the latter birds on the 

 Gwydir River in November, 1898. 



* Rep. Horn Expl. Exped., pt. ii., Zool., p. 88 (1896). 

 + Rec. Aus. Mus., vol. iii., p. 14 (1897). 



