23G PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON A NATURAL HISTORY 



slightly on the dorsal fin, and connecting the yellow ground-colour 

 of the head with that of the caudal region ; a vertically disposed 

 elongate ovate area of opake white including the operculum, pre- 

 opercular spine, and base of the pectoral fin. Length — 8 inches. 

 Habitat — Port Darwin. 



The two previously recordei Australian species of the genus, 

 Holacanthus sexstriatus C. 4" v - and H. Duboidayi, Gunth., belong 

 *o that section in which the bands or striations are vertically 



disposed . 



List of Birds, Lizards, and Snakes collected at Oamkridge 



GULF, IDENTIFIED BY Mil. C. De YlS, M.A. 



Birds. 



Pa ch v ce ph al a g u :t u r al i s — f.ath. 



,, fretorum, n.s. 



Malurus amabilis— Gld. 

 Dica?um hirundinaceuni — Shaiv. 

 Strix novaj-hollandia? — Steph. 

 Ninox connivens, pale var. — Lath. 

 Grallint picata — Lath. 

 Artamus lencopygialiH — Gld. 



,, melnnops— GUI. 

 Bferopa ornatu* — Lath. 

 Rhipidura albiscapa — GUI. 

 Halcyon pyrrhopygius — Gld. 

 Myzomela sanguino'.enta — Lath. 

 Philemon buceroides— Swain. 

 Pti.stes erythropterus — Gmcl. 

 Erythiauchen lmmeralin — Temm. 

 Limosa uropygialis — Temm. 

 Himantopus leucocephalus — Gld. 

 Paira gallinacea — Temm. 

 Syno.cus australis — Ltath. 

 Nettapus pulchellus — Gld. 



