14. RISSOINA SCALARIANA.

Rissoina scalariana, A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 265. Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 30 fathoms, sand bottom.

15.-RISSOINA GIGANTEA.

Rissoina gigantea, Deshayes.

Cumingii, Reeve, H. and A. Ad. Recent Moll., vol. 3,

pl. 35, fig. 1.

gigantea, Cross, Journal de Conch., 1861, vol. 9, 3rd series, p. 309.

Hab. Hall Sound, New Guinea. One fine specimen found on the reef under a stone.

16.-RISSOINA MONTROUZIERI.

Rissoina Montrouzieri, Souverbie, Journal de Conch., 1862, vol. 10, 3rd series, p. 237, pl. 9, fig. 5.

Noumea, New

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits; found under stones. Bet Island; found on sand beaches after gale. Caledonia (Brazier).

17.-RISSOINA EXASPERATA.

Rissoina exasperata, Souverbie, Journal de Conch., 1866, vol. 14, p. 259, pl. 9, fig. 10.

Hab. Palm Island, North-East Australia; found on the reefs under coral and stones. Darnley Island, Torres Straits; under stones, and at 25 fathoms, sandy mud bottom.

18.-RISSOINA. SP. ?

Hab. Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, mud bottom. One specimen found dead and sea worn.

Hab. Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, mud bottom. One specimen found dead and sea worn,

Hab. Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, mud bottom. Cape York, Mud Bay, North Australia, 4 fathoms, mud bottom. Off York Island, Torres Straits, 13 fathoms, hard yellow mud bottom. Specimens all dead and sea worn.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sandy mud. One specimen found dead and sea worn.

Hab. Warrior Island, Torres Straits. Two specimens found in shell sand, dead and worn.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sandy mud. Specimens dead and sea worn.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. One specimen found dead and sea worn.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. One specimen found dead and sea worn.

26.-RISSOINA EFFICATA. N. SP.

Shell elongate, solid, white, smooth; whorls 7, flattened, the three upper having two spiral granulated ridges on the centre of the whorls; suture deep, aperture semiovate; inner lip moderately callous, outer lip very much thickened, white, slightly sinuated anteriorly.

Length, 4 lines; breadth, 1 line.

Hab. Barnard Islands, No. 3, North-east Australia; found under blocks of coral.

27.-RISSOINA TERES. N. SP.

Shell narrowly elongate, somewhat solid, white; whorls 7, flattened, finely cancellated, the last obtusely keeled below the centre; suture fine, spire acuminate, apex acute, aperture semiovate, white, slightly callous; outer lip dilated and thickened, slightly channelled above, moderately sinuated anteriorly. Length, 3 lines; breadth, 1 line.

Bet

Hab. Mud Bay, Cape York, North Australia, 4 fathoms. Island, Torres Straits, 11 fathoms, sandy mud. West side of Warrior Reef, 8 fathoms, hard mud bottom. Off Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. Specimens not in very good condition.

28.--RISSOINA PULCHELLA.

Shell elongate, solid, whitish, longitudinally finely ribbed, ribs smooth; interstices transversely minutely lirate, only seen with the lens; whorls 8, slightly convex; spire acuminate, apex acute, aperture subovate; inner lip with thickened callus, outer lip thickened internally, ivory white, expanded and deeply sinuated anteriorly.

Length, 31 lines; breadth, 14 line.

Hab. Barnard Islands, No. 3, North-east Australia; Home Islands, off Cape Grenville. Found on the reefs under coral.

Shell elongate, thin, shiny, white, minutely cancellated; whorls 71, flat, the last roundly convex; suture distinct, spire acuminate, apex acute, white, smooth; aperture ovate; inner lip thickened with thin plate of callus, outer lip thickened and expanded, reflected, little sinuated anteriorly.

Length, 3 lines; breadth, 1 line.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 30 fathoms, sandy bottom.

30.-RISSOINA CARDINALIS. N. SP.

Shell somewhat pyramidally ovate, thick, whitish, strongly longitudinally ribbed; whorls 8 to 9, slightly rounded, suture distinct, last whorl with a rounded ridge at the base; aperture subovate; inner lip thickened, outer lip thin at edge, thickly variced behind, sinuated anteriorly.

Length, 3 lines; breadth, 1 line.

Hab. Cape Grenville, North-east Australia, 20 fathoms, sandy mud. Cape York, North Australia, 11 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. Off Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, sandy mud bottom.

31.-RISSOINA INCONSPICUA.

Shell small, elongately ovate, white, obliquely somewhat longitudinally ribbed; ribs sharp, interstices smooth, rounded; whorls 6, flat, spire short, apex papillose, shining white; aperture subovate; inner lip thickened and slightly expanded over the body whorl, the outer lip thickened and rounded, minutely sinuated anteriorly.

Length, 1; breadth, line.

Hab. Dungeness Island, Torres Straits, 11 fathoms, mud bottom; brought up on the fluke of the ship's anchor. Sue Island, Torres Straits, 13 fathoms, sandy mud bottom.

Three very bad and worn specimens, of a line long, were found in shell sand in the middle of the island. What little sculpture remains reminds me of Alvania Beani, Hanley, found on the English Coast.

Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 30 fathoms.

A single sea worn specimen, of a line long. The little sculpture that remains resembles in form Alvania Zetlandica, Mont., found in the north of Scotland.

Notes of a Collection of Birds from New Britain, New Ireland,

and the Duke of York Islands, with some remarks on the Zoology of the Group By E. PIERSON RAMSAY, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Australian ornithologists may be pleased to know that a fine collection of Birds obtained at the Duke of York Island, New Ireland, and New Britain, has been secured for the Australian Museum. This fine collection consists of 257 specimens and 90 species, nearly all of them from the abovenamed localities. They were collected by the Rev. George Brown and Mr. James Cockerell, from whom they were purchased.

This collection is remarkable not only for containing a large number of species, but particularly in bringing to light again a number of interesting forms of which little or nothing has been seen or heard since the voyage of the Coquille in 1820-5. Among these I may mention the beautiful golden and black flycatcher Arses (monarcha), chrysomela, Cynnyris aspazia, Centropus ater-albus, Dicæum erythrothorax, (Less.), (D. schistaceiceps, Gray), and the true Campephaga karu (Less.): from this last it is very evident that our Australian bird known under that name is specifically distinct, and may perhaps be, as stated in Gray's Hand-list, C. rufiventris. Others again, such as Dendrochelidon mystaceus, Arses telescopthalmus, Monarcha inornata, Piezorhynchus chalybeocephalus, are also represented. The Accipitres are by no means numerous. One species of Milvus, perhaps M. affinis of a dark race, Astur hiogaster (?)* adults and young having no bars on wings or tail, from New Britain and New Ireland. Haliaetus lencogaster, Haliastur indus, var. leucocephalus, and Baza reinwardti were obtained from the same localities. Also two specimens of Ninox from New Ireland (?), one N. variegata, and the other of a new species closely allied to N. tœniata and N. hypogramma, and not unlike Athene brama. One of the most interesting birds is the minute true esculent-nested swallow, Collocalia esculenta, L. There are many specimens of the

* Perhaps a new species, as it does not altogether agree with A. hiogaster.