Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
469 
ON THE POSITION OF MACQUARIE HARBOUR, AND POINTS ON THE 
WEST COAST OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. 
From the observations of Mr. Calder given at page 428, and 
Lieut. Kay’s remarks upon these observations, given at pages 
389 —391, of the present number of the Tasmanian Journal, on 
the position of Macquarie Harbour and various points on the 
west coast of Van Diemen’s Land, Capt. P. P. King, R.N., has 
addressed a letter to the editor, from which we make the following 
extract:—“ I did not survey Macquarie Harbour farther up than 
the part where the shoals terminate; all to the east and south¬ 
east was from a plan given me at Hobart Town in 1818, surveyed, 
I believe, by Mr. Florance. I believe its extent was very much 
exaggerated by that gentleman, although I think the outline was 
sufficiently correct. I am only responsible for the entrance. 
“ The longitude of Cape Sorell was fixed by chronometer with 
reference to Hobart Town as given by Captain Flinders, and ought 
to be correct to one or two minutes of arc—or three at most. In 
some of the early maps the Harbour occupies a much larger ex¬ 
tent of the interior of the western coast than it ought, but the 
error has been corrected. I have no means of reference to Frank- 
land’s map, to which the paper in the Tasmanian Journal refers, 
nor to my own papers, as I write this in Sydney.” 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
February 24, 1846. 
Descriptions of eleven new species of Australian Birds, by John 
Gould, Esq :— 
Athene marmorata. Ath. omni superiore corpore, alis, cau- 
ddque, saturate fuscis, nuchd autem alarum tectricibus, et 
scapularibus, obscure albo maculatis; pogoniis internis pri- 
mariorum ad basin et rectricum lateralium fasciis stramineis, 
ad ext re mam pogonium albicantibus, ornatis ; facie et menlo 
