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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. JSTorton exhibited specimens of West Australian plants 

 (Dryandra and Anigozanthos). 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited a collection of American Grasses, 

 including some rare species from Mexico and Guatemala. 



Mr. G. H. Halligan exhibited, for Mr. A. E. Flavelle, a speci- 

 men of a recently hatched Echidna (about 50 mm. from snout to 

 tail, measured without straightening the specimen), together with 

 the eggshell, both taken from the pouch on September 18th, 1897, 

 at Gradgery, on Marthaguy Creek, County of Gregory, N.S.W. 



Mr. North exhibited a specimen of the young in down of the 

 Black-fronted Dotterel, ^gialitis melonops, YieilL, which he had 

 caught in the dry bed of Cook's River, at Enfield on the 19th inst. 

 It is apparently about three days old, and has the general colour 

 above buflF; a narrow black line extends from the base of the 

 upper mandible below each eye and connects with a broad black 

 collar around the nape; a similar black line above the fore part 

 of each eye meets towards the crown of the head and forms a V- 

 shaped marking; on the occiput a conspicuous white crescent 

 bordered in the centre of the inner side with a blackish band; a 

 broad black line extends through the centre of the wing-coverts 

 around the sides of the body and meets in a point at the tail; in 

 the centre of the back is a round black spot succeeded by another 

 on the lower back, and a short black streak on the rump; short 

 pen feathers of the tail which are just appearing black tipped 

 with buff, on each side of the tail a tuft of long black filamentous 

 down; all the undersurface and edge of the wing white; the lower 

 sides of the body washed with buff; base of upper mandible 

 reddish-flesh colour, of lower mandible orange, tip of bill black; 

 iris dark brown, nearly black ; legs and feet pale ochreous-yellow. 

 Total length in life when in a prone position, 3 inches; weight ^ 

 of an ounce. 



Also a beautiful nest of the Black -capped Honey-eater, Melitli- 

 reptus Z^^;i^fZrt^ws, Shaw, obtained in a Eucalypt at Belmore on the 



