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large and robust ; a better idea of its size is conveyed by the upper 
figure of the supposed female. The figure of the male is fairly 
accurate in colour, except in the bill, cere and feet, which at all 
times it is a difficult matter to faithfully depict from dried skins. 
In the living example now before me a narrow line of turquoise 
blue separates the pale-yellow feathers of the forehead from the 
crown of the head, and the black feathers of the latter extend in 
a central stripe on to the nape ; the bill is horn- white, faintly 
shaded with bluish-grey at the base, and the cere, legs, feet and 
claws are of a pale cinnabar-fiesh colour. 
It is worthy of remark, that forty years elapsed between Bauer 
making a drawing of this bird, and Elsey obtaining the first 
specimens, and that nearly a half century has since passed away 
before the discovery of another specimen. Only four examples 
and a drawing of this bird during a period of eighty-two years, 
fully entitle it to the distinction of being the rarest of all our 
Australian Parrakeets. 
Addendum . — Since the above was in type I have received Part 
iv. of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1898, 
and find in the list of additions to the Gardens, that a pair of these 
birds was purchased by the Society on the 10th of March, 1897. 
VII. — On the EXTENSION of the RANGE of PHjETON 
CANDIDUS to NEW SOUTH WALES and LORD 
HOWE ISLAND. 
Climatic influences are among the most important factors in the 
distribution of species, and the recent heavy easterly gales of 
February 10th, 11th, 12th of the present year, which caused so 
much disaster to the shipping on the coast of New South Wales, 
have been the means of increasing the number of birds included in 
its avifauna. On the 15th of February an immature specimen of 
Phatton candidus , in the flesh, was presented to the Trustees by 
Mr. Henry Burns, who had picked it up in a dying condition, the 
previous day, on the shores of Botany Bay. This species was not 
met with by Gould, neither is it mentioned in any of his works on 
Australian birds. Dr. E. P. Ramsay has, however, in his “Tabular 
List of Australian Birds” included Gape York and Wide Bay, 
among the numerous localities over which it enjoys a range. 
Previously it was not represented in the Museum by an Australian 
specimen, but there is portion of a skin in a slightly advanced 
stage of immaturity from Lord Howe Island, obtained there by 
Mr. D. Love in May 1890 ; another new locality for this species. 
This wanderer over the intertropical zone of the Atlantic, Indian, 
and Pacific Oceans, has been recorded, among other localities, by 
Count Salvadori in his “ Ornitologia della Papausia e delle 
Molucche” from Florida, Cuba, Costa Rica, Jamaica, the Bermudas, 
