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shift their quarters from year to year. On Aug. 3rd we both observed an 

 adult Lesser Tern (S. minuta) rise from a cockle-bed in Broad Bay, Storno- 

 way. — John H. Teesdale (St. Margaret's, West Dulwich). 



The Sanderling in Australia. — In the middle of July, 1894, when 

 out for a stroll along the beach, I had a family shot among a party of 

 waders a mile or two south of Point Cloates (which is situated at the base of 

 the North-West Cape peninsula). I picked up eight Turnstones, Strepsilas 

 interpres, two Little Sandpipers, and two other waders, which lacking the 

 hind toe at once caught my attention. None of my books here containing 

 any reference to the Sanderling, Calidris arenaria, I made a skin of one of 

 my specimens, and forwarded it to Mr. A. J. Campbell, of Melbourne, who 

 in turn sent it to Colonel Legge. He replies : — M Calidris arenaria in 

 abraded plumage, with new winter feathers coming on back and wings." 

 From Mr. Campbell's note in the ' Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Victoria,' it seems that only one other occurrence of the species has 

 been noted here, namely, in New South Wales. Probably the bird visits 

 these shores more often than is suspected. — Thomas Carter (Point Cloates, 

 via Carnarvon, West Australia). 



[This occurrence is noteworthy, for Mr. Seebohm, in his fine quarto 

 work on the Geographical Distribution of the Charadriida and Scolopacida, 

 makes no mention of the occurrence of the Sanderling in Australia. But 

 so long ago as April, 1844, two examples of this bird were obtained by John 

 Macgillivray in Sandy Cove, N. S. Wales, and are preserved in the Derby 

 Museum, Liverpool (of. Newton in ■ Records of Australian Museum,' vol. ii. 

 p. 22 ; and ■ Nature,' 23rd June and 7th July, 1892.— Ed.] 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



May 2nd, 1895.— Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Prof. J. W. Carr and Mr. W. Will were admitted Fellows, and Drs. C. 

 Nordstedt, of Lund, Rudolph Philippi, of Santiago, and M. Woronin, of 

 St. Petersburg, were elected Foreign Members. 



Mr. H. M. Bernard showed under the microscope the circumscribed 

 patches of setae above and below the stigmata on the pupa of the Vapourer 

 Moth, Orgyia antiqua. The arrangement suggested a vanished notopodium 

 just where in the Hexapods a dorsal branch of a parapodium ought to have 

 vanished, according to the exhibitor's method of deducing the different 

 groups of the Arthropoda from their Annelidan ancestors, as sketched in his 

 recent paper on the Galeodidoe. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited some new British Algse from Dorsetshire 

 and Sussex ; amongst others Ulvella confluens and Ectocarpus Beinboldi, 



