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Major F. W. Proctor exhibited some eggs of the BufF- 

 breastecl Sandpiper [Tryngites subruficollis) Avhich had been 

 taken by the Rev. C. E. Whittaker on Herschell Island, 

 westward of the mouth o£ the Mackenzie River. Photo- 

 graphs of the locality were also shown. 



Mr. D. Le Souef informed the meeting that he had 

 recently examined the collection of the skins of Dromceus in 

 the British Museum, and that among them he had discovered 

 two specimens of the Tasmanian Emu, presented to that 

 Museum by the late Ronald Gunn in 1838. These skins 

 were of great interest, as the species was now extinct in 

 Tasmania ; and it was evident, from the specimens in the 

 British Museum, that the Emu of Tasmania was distinct 

 from that of the continent {Dromceus novco-hollandite) , having 

 no black on the throat and fore-neck, these i')arts being entirely 

 white. Mr. Le Souef stated that the discovery of these facts 

 confirmed the opinion which he had already expressed as to 

 the distinctness of the two species of Dromceus, based on a 

 study of their eggs : and that the name of D. diemenensis, 

 which he had proposed for the Tasmanian Emu, was now 

 established by the examination of the skins above mentioned. 



Mr. Le Souef also exhibited the type specimens of seven 

 species of birds in the Queensland Museum, which Mr. De Vis 

 had very kindly permitted him to bring to Europe for 

 comparison at the British Museum. The species were as 

 follows : — 



Wdpidura phasiana, De Vis. 



Microeca pallida, De Vis. 



Arses lorealis, De Vis. 



Oreoscopus gutturalis (De Vis). 



Pachycephala fretorum, De Vis. 



Melithrejytus vinitinctus, De Vis. 



Ninox lurida, De Vis. 



Mr. Gregory M. Mathews exhibited a series of paintings 

 by Mr. Keulemans of the above-mentioned type specimens. 



