1891.] MR. SEEBOHM ON FIVE RARE IRISH BIRDS. 627 



Plate XLVI. 



Fig. 1, 2. Hyla arborea, p. 61U. Near St. Malo. 



3. , var. meridionalis, p. 611. Near Nice. 



4. Bwfo vulgaris, p. 612. Near London. 

 .5. viridis, p. 612. Breslau. 



6. calamita, p. 614. Near St. Mala. 



7. FelobatesfuscKS, p. 614. Pragiio. 



8. ^ ciiltripcs, p. 616. Herault. 



Plate XLVII. 



Pig. 1, 2. Pelodytes punctatua, p. 617. Near St. Malo. 



3. Discoglossus pichis, p. 620. Montecristo. 



4. Bombinator igncus, p. 621. Sjalland, Denmark 

 .5. pachi/pus, p. 621. Mondorf, Luxemburg. 



6. Alytes obstetricang, p. 622. St. Germain, near Paris. 

 7. var. bosccB, p. 624. Serra Estrella. 



5. cisternasii, p. 624. Sierra Morena. 



The tadpoles are represented of the natural size. The mouth («) is enlarged 

 .5 diameters in fig. 7, PI. XLVI. ; 1.5 diameters in figs. 4 and 6, PI. XLVL, and 

 fig. 3, PI. XLVII. ; 7 diameters in fig. 8, PL XLVL, and fig. 6, PI. XLVII. ; 

 10 diameters in the rest. 



December 1, 1891. 

 Henry Seebohiii, Esq., F.Z.S.,in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of a Shearwater which had been 

 captured alive in Victoria Park, Sydney, on August 2nd, 1891, having 

 been driven on land by the heavy storm. It had been brought to 

 England from Australia by Prof. Anderson Stuart and was to be 

 deposited in the British Museum. Mr. Sclater read the following 

 extract from a letter from Mr. O. Salvin, E.R.S., concerning the 

 identification of this bird : — 



" I have examined the Petrel you sent me. It proves to be a 

 specimen of Puffinus gavia, Forst. I have compared it with an ex- 

 ample from New Zealand in the Cambridge Museum kindly lent 

 me by Prof. Newton, and find the two birds precisely alike. 



" Puffinus (javia is not uncommon on the coasts of New Zealand, 

 but it has not to my knowledge been detected near Austraha. A 

 full account of the species will be found in Buller's * Birds of New 

 Zealand,' ed. 2, ii. p. 236." 



Dr. Edward Hamilton, F.Z.S., exhibited an example of the Red- 

 breasted Snipe of North America {Macrorhamphus griseus) shot near 

 Crinan in Argyllshire, as noticed in the ' Zoologist' for 1891 (Zool. 

 ser. 3, XV. p. 427), and stated to be the second example of this bird 

 procured in Scotland. 



Mr. Seebohm exhibited and made remarks on five rare Irish birds 

 from the collection of Mr. E. M. Barrington, of Bray, in County 

 "Wicklow, No fewer than four of these had been caught by Mr. W. 

 H. James, the light-keeper at the Tearaght Hoik, the most westerly 



