4. The President also exhibited a beautiful specimen of the white tern (Gygis alba) from the Kermadec Islands. He mentioned that this species, instead of depositing its eggs on rocks, or on the sands of the sea-shore, like the rest, placed them on boughs of trees overhanging the water.

5. “Note on the Mus maorium, Hutton,” with specimen, by Sir W. Buller. (Transactions, p. 49.)

Captain Mair remarked that this little rat was exactly similar to that inhabiting White Island, in the Bay of Plenty.

Sir James Hector said that this rat was entirely different from some others sent from Nelson at the time of the irruption of rats referred to, and which he was unable to distinguish from Mus rattus.