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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Basset Hull exhibited an egg aiul nestlings of Oestrelata 

 leucoptera Gould (White-winged Petrel), taken at Cabbage 

 Tree Island, near the entrance to Port .Stephens, N.8.W. The 

 egg was taken on the 4th December, 1910, on which date 

 many birds were found sitting on fresh or slightly incubated 

 eggs. The nests were phiced aniongst loose boulders or in 

 crevices under rocks in a gully densely wooded with the Cabbage 

 Palms ( lAviistona australisj to which tlie Island owes its name. 

 Very little material was used to line the hollows iii wliich the 

 eggs were laid, merely a few shreds of fibre or dead fronds form- 

 ing the nests. The eggs are pure white, without gloss, stout, 

 rounded, oval in shape, average dimensions 1-96 x 1-46 inches. 

 The nestlings were taken on 30th Januaiy, 1910 ; tlun' were in 

 down, bluish-grey on the upper surface, ajid greyish- white on 

 the breast. The feet show the characteristic colouration of the 

 adult l)ir<l, the basal half of the interdigital meml)rane being 

 black. 



Mr. A. R. McCulloch exhibited, by permission of the Curator 

 of the Australian Museum, specimens of Gadopsis mamwratns 

 Richardson, from Manilla on the Namoi River, and R3^1estone 

 on a tributary of the Macquarie. This species does not appear 

 to have been previously recorded so far north. Also a specimen 

 of Epiue/'hdus lauceolahis, Bloch, from Clifton, N.S.Wales. A 

 specimen of this fish was exhibited by Sir William Macleay, in 

 1886, wliich was obtained in the Cairns district, Queensland, 

 and is apparently the only other Australian specimen known. 

 A drawing of S<-huellea ncalaripiniiis Steindachner, was ex- 

 hibited. This species was described from Port Jackson, in 1866, 

 but has been overlooked by all latei- writers. An allied species 

 was described from West Australia by Mr. Waite, in 1905, as 

 Urawichthys iv(>odtva7-di ; while Steindachner's species was again 

 noted from Sydney, though under Waite's name, in the following 

 year by Mr. Stead. A comparison of specimens, however, shows 



