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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibiteAl flowering and fruiting specimens of 

 Acronychia acidida, F.v.M., from the Richmond River. It is a 

 plant new for New South Wales, having been recorded hitherto 

 only from Queensland. 



Mr. North exhibited a specimen of Platycercus pennantii, 

 received from Dr. P. Herbert Metcalfe, the Resident Medical 

 Officer on Norfolk Island. This bird was separated from the 

 continental form by Canon Tristam under the name of 2\ 

 pennantii, var. 7iobbsi, on account of its smaller size, upon the 

 suggestion and receipt of specimens from Mr. E. L. Layard, who 

 stated all his birds of this species were the same size. The speci- 

 men forwarded by Dr. Metcalfe is in immature plumage, but 

 actually exceeds in its length of wing and tarsus typical Aus- 

 tralian examples, thus confirming the opinion of Count Salvadori 

 in his Catalogue of the Psittaci, who states that he found no 

 difference in the size of the insular from the continental form, 

 except that a specimen from Norfolk Island was even larger 

 than any from Australia, and who ranks P. nohhsi as a synonym 

 of P. elegans, of Gmelin (P. pennantii, of Lath.\ our well-known 

 Australian species (Brit. Mus. Cat. Vol. xx. 1891). 



Mr. North also exhibited specimens of Graucalus melanops, 

 Lath., and Ardea novce-hoUandice, Lath., recently obtained by Dr. 

 Metcalfe for the first time on Norfolk Island. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a specimen of the new Tasmanian lizard ; 

 specimens of a Victorian frog ( Pseitdophryne semi-mar morata), 

 and fossil plants from Joadja Creek, among them an interesting 

 specimen showing impressions of sori. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the galls of Cecidomyia 

 nuhilij^ennis, Sk., previously unrecorded, from Flemington, on the 

 leaf-stalks of Eucalyptus siderophloia, and of the gnats bred there- 

 from. 



Mr. Baker sent for exhibition flowering and fruiting specimens 

 of Acacia siihulata figured in his paper, from the Upper Goulburn 



