NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 1029 



Mr. North exhibited the birds mentioned in his paper, and also 

 drew attention to the number of Australian Finches now in the 

 Sydney Market, among which he pointed out several rarities, 

 viz. : Donacicola pectorcdis, Gould ; Poephila Qnirabilis, Homb. et 

 Jacq. ; Poephila leitcotis, Gould ; and Bathilda ruficauda, Gould, 

 obtained midway between Townsville and Normanton, Northern 

 Queensland. 



Mr. North also communicated the following "Note on the 

 successful hatching of an egg of the Emu, Dromaius novce- 

 hollandice, under a domestic fowl " : — 



" I beg to bring under the notice of the members of this 

 Society the success attending the hatching of an emu egg under 

 a domestic fowl. Mrs. M. Walker, of Newtown, Sydney, has in 

 her possession a pair of emus, Dromaius novce-hollandicB, obtained 

 from Queensland ; early in July last the female laid several 

 eggs, one of which was by way of experiment placed under a 

 common barn-door fowl on the 15th of July. The hen sat very 

 well for two weeks, when she became restless, and another one 

 was immediately put in her place, the egg being regularly 

 turned every morning, as it was too cumbersome for the fowl. 

 On the 2nd of September, the young bird emerged from the 

 shell, strong and healthy, and was thriving very well, till turned 

 out upon a grass plot for a run seventeen days after, when it was 

 attacked by one of the emus and never recovered. The exact 

 period of incubation would therefore in this case appear to be 

 seven weeks. The young bird and remaining portions of the 

 egg-shell which I exhibit here to-night have been presented by 

 Mrs. Walker to the trustees of the Australian Museum. 

 The female is now sitting on six eggs, and five others have 

 been placed in an incubator ; the last egg laid is of a deep bluish- 

 green, perfectly smooth and free from granulation." 



Mr. Brazier exhibited the Mollusca trawled by Mr. Smithers 

 off Merimbula, and Crassatella j)ulchra, Reeve, found by Mr. E. 

 Richards, of Ballina, Richmond River. 



