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Museum, specimens of Gadopsis marmoratus Richardson, from Manilla on 
the Namoi River, and Rylestone on a tributary of the Macquarie. This species 
does not appear to have been previously recorded so far north. Also a spe- 
cimen of Æpinephelus lanceolatus, Bloch, from Clifton, N.S.Wales. A spe- 
cimen of this fish was exhibited by Sir William Macleay, in 1886, which 
was obtained in the Cairns district, Queensland, and is apparently the only 
other Australian specimen known. A drawing of Schuettea scalaripinnis 
Steindachner, was exhibited. This species was described from Port Jackson, 
in 1866, but has been overlooked by all later writers. An allied species 
was described from West Australia by Mr. Waite, in 1905, as Bramichthys 
woodwardi; while Steindachner’s species was again noted from Sydney, 
though under Waite’s name, in the following year by Mr. Stead. A com- 
parison of specimens, however, shows that the eastern and western forms are 
distinct, so that the former should be known as S. scalaripinnis, and the 
latter as S. woodwardi. — Mr. North sent for exhibition a skin or Puffinus 
carneipes Gould, from Lord Howe Island, and of P. chlororhynchos Lesson, 
from South Solitary Island, on the northern coast of New South Wales, tog- 
ether with the following note— ‘The skin of P. carneipes is from one of 
three live birds presented on the 27th March, 1911, to the Trustees of the 
Australian Museum, by Mr. William Whiting of Lord Howe Island. Much 
confusion has existed in connection with this species. Dr. E. P. Ramsay 
referred the birds collected by Mr. Etheridge and party of the Australian 
Museum, in August-September, 1887, on Lord Howe Island, to Puffinus 
brevicaudus Brandt (= P. tenuirostris Tem.); likewise the eggs and birds, 
collected by Mr. E. H. Saunders, in the same locality in November of the 
same year. On the 28th January, 1904, I added P. carneipes to the Lord 
Howe Island avifauna, in the ‘Records of the Australian Museum,” Vol. v., 
p. 126, and found out on visiting that locality in October, 1910, that P. car- 
neipes was the common species breeding in the dense palm and banyan vege- 
tation between Middle Beach and Transit Hill. P. tenuirostris does not oc- 
cur on Lord Howe Island, or in its vicinity. The other specimen, P. chloro- 
rhynchos, was one of several received by the Trustees of the Australian 
Museum from Mr. Jennings, of South Solitary Island, on the 18th No- 
vember, 1878. In the Society’s Proceedings (Vol. iii, p. 406, 1879), 
Dr. Ramsay erroneously attributed these birds, together with their eggs, 
which he described, to P. carneipes. — Mr. North also contributed the fol- 
lowing note on a further description of the genus Ashbyia. In the March, 
1911, number of the ‘‘Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales,” I briefly 
characterised the genus Ashbyia, which may now be amplified. Bull about 
half as long as head, nearly straight, comparatively deep, but broader than 
deep at nostril, the upper mandible arched and gently decurving towards the 
tip; wings nearly twice the length of tail, the first primary very short, the third 
longest, the second and fourth nearly equal; the longest upper tail-coverts 
half the length of tail-feathers; tarsus comparatively slender, about half the 
length of tail-feathers; middle toe the longest, and, without the claw, equal 
in length to the hind toe with claw. The genus Ashbyia is allied to Eph- 
thianura, but the latter may be distinguished by its more slender and pointed | 
bill, its shorter wing and different wing-formula, and by its longer upper 
tail-coverts. 
