1891.] MR. SEEBOHM ON FIVE RARE IRISH BIRDS. 62/ 



Plate XLVI. 

 Fig. 1, 2. Hyki arborea, p. 610. Near St. Malo. 



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



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

 o. viridis, p. 612. Ereslau. 



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



7. Pelobatesfuscus, p. 614. Prague. 

 8- cultripcs, p. 616. Herault. 



Plate XLVII. 



Fig. ], 2. Pelodytes punctatiis, p. 617. Near St. Malo. 



3. Biscoglossus pictus, p. 620. Montecristo. 



4. Bombmator igoicus, p. 621. Sjallancl, Denmark 



5. pachypus, p. 621. Mondorf, Luxemburg. 



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

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



8. '- cisternasii, p. 624. Sierra Morena. 



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

 5 diameters in fig. 7, PL XLVI. ; 15 diameters in figs. 4 and 6, PL XLVL, and 

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

 10 diameters in the rest. 



December 1, 1891. 

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



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

 captured ahve 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. Salviu, F.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 gavia is not uncommon on the coasts of New Zealand, 

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

 full account of the species will be found in BuUer'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 Avaeriea (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. B. 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 Rock, the most westerly 



