364) Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard on 
P. belluSj Gould^ we have not got for comparison; but our 
collection contains P. melanonotuSj and we have found nothing 
like it here. 
Butorides javanicus (Horsf.). 
If we mistake not, Messrs. Finsch and Hartlauh, in their 
‘ Ornithologie ^ (p. 210), include this species as an inhabitant 
of New Caledonia. 
4-87. (EsTRELpATA RosTRATA, Peale. 
This is the common Petrel of the country. We know of 
several breeding-places, and have obtained young birds in 
various stages of plumage. Our list of these birds also 
includes 
-(-OEstrellata gavia (Forst.) (Gray, B. Trop. Is. p. 56), and 
-^Procellaria c^rtjlea, Gmel., 
both of which we believe we have seen close to the island 
in our voyages to Australia. 
f PuFFTNUs BREViCAUDUs, Brandt; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 
vol. ii. p. 459. 
We have to thank Capt. North, of the schooner ^Effie 
Muckle,^ running in the coasting trade here, for the addition 
of this and the following species to our avifauna. We only 
wish we could induce others who go down to the sea in 
ships, and occupy their business in great waters,^^ to interest 
themselves in our pursuit; they little know the interest they 
would derive from it, and how much they might benefit 
seience. 
The specimen noted was caught on the water at Honailou 
by some fishermen, and brought to us in alcohol (rum),— 
a male, in fine plumage. We suspect this is one of the Petrels 
that breed in holes on Huon Island. 
•^Thalassidroma wilsoni. Keys, et Bias. 
Of this a pair were seen, and^ one shot (and brought to 
us in alcohol by Capt. North), in the Wodin Pass, at the 
south end of the island, on the 31st of June last. A female 
in fine plumage. 
88. Larus nov^-hollandi^, Steph. 
If this bird is rightly identified, it breeds on Huon Island j 
