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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland exhibited an abnormal flower of one ( f tlie 

 common West Australian species of Candollea (Stylidium), the 

 corolla having an extra petal-lobe (six instead of five). 



Mr. L. Harrison exhibited two females, adult and immature, 

 of the oriental cuckoo, Cucuhis saluratus Hodgs.,( = C. inter- 

 medins Vahl=C. canoroides Miill.) sent to him, in the flesh 

 from Broadwater, Richmond River, N.S.W., during April, 1907. 

 This species was first recorded for New South Wales, at a meet- 

 ing of this Society, on 28th June, 1905, when Mr. A. J. North 

 exhibited a skin from the Tweed River, killed in August, 1902; 

 and gave additional records of specimens from Gympie, Wide 

 Bay, Port Denison, and Cairns in Queensland. It is frequently 

 seen in collections from the Northern Territory, so that, even if 

 not a regular migrant, it is a frequent visitor to Australia, and 

 possibly to New South Wales. In Mathews' " Hand-List of 

 the Birds of Australia," it is described as "accidental " for New 

 South Wales, and the Northern Territory is omitted from tlie 

 distribution. The birds exhibited were in company with two 

 othei's of the same .species, moving unobtrusively among the heavy 

 scrub-timber; and constitute the most southerly record for the 

 species. They were not heard to utter any note. The stomachs 

 contained half-digested larvae of a large hawknioth. The 

 specimens recorded from New South Wales are all females, which 

 may indicate that this sex is more adventurous in its migrations 

 than the male. It is interesting to note that the birds in ques- 

 tion were obtained in April, when they would naturally be 

 expected to have reached the Asiatic end of their range. 



Mr. Basset Hull exhibited a skin and an egg of the " Big Hill 

 Mutton Bird " of Lord Howe Island, and a skin and an egg of 



