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The most northerly record that I know for Deriisonia coronata and for 

 Egernia whitei, "Perth," is less than 30 miles north of Perth. Lygosoma 

 richardsoni is known only from the Abrolhos. The remainder of the species 

 are found farther north on the' mainland, but there is not one of them which 

 is not found in the south-west. 



Section 2.— The Marine Vertebrates. 

 SEA-BIRDS. 



Sphemsciformes. 



Sphenikcid.e. 



Eudyptfla minor woodwardi, Mathews. Little Penguin. 



Recorded by Hall without further particulars. I know of no other record 

 ot its occurrence north of Fremantle, and consider the record needs confir- 

 mation. 



Procellariiformes. 



Eydeobatid J. 



Pelagodeoma marina dulci^e, Mathews. White-faced Storm-Petrel. 



Gilbert met with this species on a small island about three miles south of 

 East Wallaby Island. The young birds were almost ready to leave their 

 holes in January. Campbell found them nesting on Beacon Island ; the 

 burrows contained young about 10 days old on December 15th. Lipfert 

 found eggs on a sand-patch off Wooded Island in November 1891 ; and Hall 

 obtained eggs and nestlings on West Wallaby Island and South Island, 

 Pelsart Group, in November 1899. 



Peocellakiida 



Puepinus ABSIMIL18 tunneyi, Mutheivs. Allied Shearwater. 



Campbell obtained a specimen of this bird at Rat Island, and Gibson noted 

 them at several islands, principally on Wooded Island, where he obtained 

 numerous almost full-grown young in the burrows (November 1907). Hall 

 states that the eggs have been found on Pelsart Group in July. We saw 

 them several times about West Wallaby Island. One individual was found 

 sitting on the water in the daytime, others flying about at night, when, like 

 the Mutton-birds, they seemed to be attracted by the lights of the ship. 

 They are not nearly so abundant as the next species. 



Thtellodroma pacifica chlororhyncha (Lesson). Wedge-tailed Shear- 

 water or Mutton-bird. 



All those who have written about ihe Abrolhos have referred to the great 



