246 irST OF DOKATIOKS 



Four Tropic Birds, Phaeton rubricauda, from Kermaclec 



Islands. 

 One Gannet, Dysporus serrator. 

 One Sooty Petrel, Procellaria fuliginosa. 

 Two Caspian Terns, Sterna Caspia. 

 Two Paradise Ducks, Casarca variegata. 

 One Blue or Mountain Duck, Hymenolcemus malacorhynchus. 

 Two Crested Grebes, Podiceps cristatus. 

 One Crested Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocomus. 

 Four Swamp-hens, Porphyria melanotis. 

 Bones of Moa. 

 Three Eggs of Tropic Bird, P. rubricauda, Kermadec 



Islands, 1891. 

 One Egg of Penguin, sp. ? 

 Two Eggs of Wideawake Tern. 

 Two Eggs (very small) laid by common Hen Pullet, five 



months old, Auckland. 



The Executors of Miss Julia Boyd. 



1892. FISHES, etc. 



Jan. 13. Jaw of a large Ray (foreign). Mr. N. H. Martin. 



Feb. 2Q. Specimen of the Tope, Galeus canis, Willughby, ? from the 

 Trawlers, North Shields. Prof. M. G. Potter, M.A. 



Mar. 3, Specimen of Trifurcated Hake. 



Mr. E. H. Birchall, North Shields. 



,, 4. Specimen of Scorpcena ?, from Trawl Boats. 



Mr. F. H. Philips, Eldon Street. 



,, 28. Part of a Rabbit Fish, C%2?ncE?-a »zo?!s<?-osa, J. (Two specimens 



of this species, S' and -B , were taken out of the stomach 



of a Ling about 12th March, brought to the Tyne by a 



Trawler). Purchased. 



April 14. Bloch's Topknot, Zeugopterus punctatus, from the Trawlers, 



North Shields. Mr. F. H. Phillips, Eldon Street. 



May 7. Large Spotted Dogfish, Scyllium canicula, Linn. 



Mr. James Read, North Shields, per Aid. J. F. Spence. 

 ,, 31. Calif ornian Toad, PArynoso?«a co?'nMfMm. 



Mr. Alex. Batters, Gillespie, 111., U.S.A. 



MOLLUSCA. 



June 18. A large collection of Marine Shells from New Zealand, Fiji, etc. 

 Nautilus, two sp. ; Argonauta tuberculata, etc., etc. 

 Helix Hockstetteri, near Picton, and a variety of Helix (Pary- 

 phanta) Busbii. The Executors of Miss Julia Boyd. 



