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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited specimens of the land shell Flammulina 

 rosacea, Petterd ( = \Helix tamare.nsis, Petterd), found for the first 

 time in N.S.W. by Mr. Cyril Quaife, who procured several living 

 specimens in the coal mine valley, Blackheath. At this point, 

 its northern known limit, Mr. Quaife found it associated with 

 Cystopelta petterdi, Tate, and a mollusc doubtfully identified as 

 Eelicarion verreauxi, Pfeifter. These southern forms here assume 

 a subalpine position. 



Mr. North exhibited specimens of Ptilotis analoga, with nest 

 and eggs, and Lamprococcyx malayanus and eggs referred to in his 

 paper. Also clutches of the following eggs taken near Sydney 

 last season, each set containing in addition the egg of a difi"erent 

 species of Cuckoo, viz., Ptilotis auricomis, with the egg of 

 Gacomantis pallida ; Acanthiza pusilla with egg of Cacomantis 

 Jlabelliformis ; Rhipidura albiscajja with egg of Gacomantis 

 insperatus ; Malurus cyaneus, with egg of Lamprococcyx basalis, 

 and Geohasileus chrysorrhc&a with egg of Lamprococcyx jdagosus. 



Mr. North also drew attention to several species of rare birds 

 at pi-esent in the George-street Markets, among which may be 

 pointed out Poephila leucoiis, Donaoicola /^eciorafe, and 

 LophojyJiaps plumifera, all captured in the neighbourhood of 

 Croydon and Hughenden, Northern Queensland. 



Mr. Maiden showed, on behalf of Dr. Bancroft, the following, 

 in illustration of his paper, viz.: Plant of Blechnum serrulatum, 

 rhizomes of the same, and the stones used for pounding them ; 

 also photographs showing (a) an aborigine preparing the fern- 

 root, (b) one of the fern swamps, and (c) the mode of collection of 

 the fern. Also stones used l)y the aborigines for pounding Bunya 

 Bunya nuts for food. 



Mr. Hamilton showed specimens of rare or local butterflies 

 (Casyapa beata, Hew., ^J, and Heteronympha mirifica, Butl.) 



