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Mr. Gregory M. Ma.thews also exhibited the following 

 skins, kindly sent over from the Melbourne Museun on 

 loan : — 



Avstroturnix olivii Robinson (male and female), from (;oen, 

 Queensland. 



Cindosoma alisteri Mathews (female), from Naretha, West 

 Australia. 



Charadrius hiaticola Linne, from New South Wales. 



And described the following new races : — 

 ~V~ Austroturnix olivii coenensis, subsp. nov. 



Differs from A. o. olivii Robinson in teing cinnamon-rufous 

 above (not pale vinous-chestnut) and in having the wing- 

 coverts lighter and the breast darker. It is also slightly 

 larger. 



Type from Coen, North Queensland. Collected by 

 Mr. William R. Maclennan on 1 Feb., 1922. 



\" Onyclioprion fuscatus glauerti, subsp. nov. 



As Sterna gouldi Reichenbach, 1845^ was not founded on 

 Gould's plate in his ' Birds of Australia,' but from skins 

 in the Dresden Museum, I designate his type-locality as 

 New South Wales and name the bird figured by Gould in 

 part xxviii. (1847), as above. 



Mr. Mathews further proposed Acanthiza urojyygialis 

 ~|- hjcheringi, new name for Geohasilius uropygialis erama 

 (A. J. Campbell). 



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD, in further reply to the Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain's criticism regarding the breeding of the Grey- 

 headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava tlmnhergi (borealis olim)) 

 in Kent, made the following remarks : — 



In the Bull. B. 0. C. xlil. 1922, p. 144, Mr. Witherby raised 

 the point as to whether the nest and eggs exhibited by me in 

 1906 did in fact belong to the pair of birds which were 



