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Show 1891.] MR. SEEBOHM ON FIVE RARE IRISH BIRDS. 627 PLATE XLVI. Fig. 1, 2. Hyla arborea, p. 610. Near St. Malo. 3. , var. meridionalis, p. 611. Near Nice. 4. Bufo vulgaris, p. 612. Near London. 5. viridis, p. 612. Breslau. 6. calamita, p. 614. Near St. Malo. 7. Pelobates fuscus, p. 614. Prague. 8. eultripes, p. 616. Herault. PLATE XLVII. Fig. 1, 2. Pelodytes punctatus, p. 617. Near St. Malo. 3. Discoglossus pictus, p. 620. Montecristo. 4. Bombinator igneus, p. 621. Sjalland, Denmark. 5. pachypus, p. 621. Mondorf, Luxemburg. 6. Alytes obstetricans, p. 622. St. Germain, near Paris. 7. var. bosca, p. 624. Serra Estrella. 8. - - cisternasii, p. 624. Sierra Morena. The tadpoles are represented of the natural size. The mouth (a) is enlarged 5 diameters in fig. 7, PI. XLVI. ; 15 diameters in figs. 4 and 6, PI. XLVI., and fig. 3, PI. XLVII.; 7 diameters in fig. 8, PI. XLVI., and fig. 6, PI. XLVII.; 10 diameters in the rest. December 1, 1891. Henry Seebohm, Esq., F.Z.S., in the Chair. Mr. Sclater exhibited a specimen of a Shearwater which had been captured alive in Victoria Park, Sydney, on August 2nd, 1891, having been driven on land by the heavy storm. It had been brought to England from Australia by Prof. Anderson Stuart and was to be deposited in the British Museum. Mr. Sclater read the following extract from a letter from Mr. O. Salvin, F.R.S., concerning the identification of this bird:- " I have examined the Petrel you sent me. It proves to be a specimen of Puffinus gavia, Forst. I have compared it with an example from N e w Zealand in the Cambridge Museum kindly lent me by Prof. Newton, and find the two birds precisely alike. " Puffinus gavia is not uncommon on the coasts of N e w Zealand, but it has not to m y knowledge been detected near Australia. A full account of the species will be found in Buller's ' Birds of N ew Zealand,' ed. 2, ii. p. 236." Dr. Edward Hamilton, F.Z.S., exhibited an example of the Red-breasted Snipe of North America (Macrorhamphusgriseus) shot near Crinan in Argyllshire, as noticed in the ' Zoologist' for 1891 (Zool. ser. 3, xv. p. 427), and stated to be the second example of this bird procured in Scotland. Mr. Seebohm exhibited and made remarks on five rare Irish birds from the collection of Mr. R. M . Barrington, of Bray, in County Wicklow. No fewer than four of these had been caught by Mr. W . H James, the light-keeper at the Tearaght Rock, the most westerly |