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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden contributed the following Note on a New Zealand 

 Coprosma commonly cultivated about Sydney : — 



The Coprosma so largely cultivated about Sydney under the 

 name C. lucida, Forst., is really C. Baueriana, Endl. The most 

 conspicuous difference between the two species is that C. lucida, 

 Forst., has the leaves acuminate, while C. Baueriana, Endl., has 

 them obtuse. Hooker f. in Flora Nova^-Zealandiee, Part i. p. 104-, 

 gives C. lucida, Endl., as a synonym of C. Baueriana, Endl. The 

 mistake in the gardens in Sydney may have arisen by confounding 

 C. lucida, Endl., with C. lucida, Forst. The error is so wide- 

 spread that it seems necessary that special attention should be 

 drawn to the matter. Credit is due to Mr. Julius Camfield, a 

 member of my staff, who first invited my attention to the erroneous 

 nomenclature. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited leaves of a Banksia covered with the 

 hairy tests of the larvae of an Homopterous insect of the family 

 Aleyrodida?, the remarkable white filaments forming a hairy coat 

 over the leaves. 



Mr. North exhibited the skin of a fledgling Fan-tailed Cuckoo, 

 Cacomantis jiabellijormis, which he had caught on the 3rd instant 

 in a gully at Chatswood. It was being fed by its foster parents, 

 a pair of Rock Warblers, Orignia ruhricata, whose nest was found 

 in a dark recess in the rocks a few feet away. Usually the egg 

 or young of this parasite is found in domed nests built in situa- 

 tions which are more or less exposed to the sun's rays. That this 

 is not a solitary instance of this Cuckoo's depositing its egg in the 

 nest of the gloom-loving species is borne out by the fact that the 

 same pair of Rock Warblers built again in a rocky chamber about 

 two hundred yards away from their previous nesting site. On 

 the 15th instant, and before the nest was quite finished, it con- 

 tained an egg of C. jiabelli/ormis, and on the 25th instant two 



