836 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



I have now the pleasure of recording the receipt of two specimens 

 obtained by our Taxidermist Mr. J. A. Thorpe, in the scrubs of the 

 coast range near Wollongong. In habits and actions the birds 

 closely resemble Atrichia and Sphemira. 



In the Australian Museum there is a specimen also of another 

 southern species, Pachycephalia olivacea, obtained by Mr. George 

 Masters some ten years ago, near Nelligen in the Shoalhaven 

 District, Mr. Thorpe was fortunate enough to meet with this bird 

 also, during the early part of this month (Nov.) near Wollongong 

 in the same locality in which the Pycnoptilus occurred. We have 

 now both sexes from the scrubs on the East coast near Sydney, 

 and a comparison of these with South Australian and Tasmanian 

 examples, shows no difference in plumage whatever. The males 

 have an ashy brown band across the chest of the same tint as the 

 head and hind neck ; in the female the olive-brown of the under 

 surface is not thus separated from the throat. There is no 

 material difference in the size of either sexes or individuals. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited several specimens of wood carvings from 

 the Solomon Islands ; also two drills used by the natives of 

 Eubiana in building their canoes, and a fish-trap used by the 

 natives of the same Island. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a very fine collection of the genus Gypreea 

 — hirundo 2, neylecta 2, cylindrica 2, errones 3, moneta 4, lynx 5, 

 var. Cahdonica 1, Isabella 1, caurica var. obsoura 3, stolida var. 

 Crossei 2, Ardbica 7, vdellm 4, scurra 1, staphylaa 1 , mappa var. 

 nigricans 2. These fourteen species were all distorted or mal- 

 formed with the extremities rostrated, and the base arched. 

 Three fine varieties of G. tifjris, four varieties of C. crihraria, and 

 one fine pink variety of C. mappa. These three species are 

 normal. 



