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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a fine specimen of the herring Elops saurus, 

 Linn., purchased in a Sydney fishmonger's shop, and believed to 

 have been captured ofi* Broken Bay ; the species is occasionally 

 taken in Port Jackson, though it is more properly an inhabitant 

 of tropical seas. He also showed a piece of timber in an excellent 

 state of preservation supposed to be red gum, a portion of a tree 

 encountered in sinking a shaft in the bed of the river during the 

 building of the bridge at Echuca ; the specimen was forwarded to 

 him by Mr. A. P. Stewart of Hay, N.S.W. Dr. Cox also showed 

 specimens of the shells referred to in his paper, and a very fine 

 example of Volufa mamilla from Tasmania. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a fine series of mounted galls and 

 coccids in illustration of his paper, including a new Brachyscelid 

 collected by Mr. A. Roxburgh at Cobar, and representatives of 

 several new species of Opisthoscelis. 



Mr. North exhibited a set of eggs consisting of three eggs of 

 Collyriocincla harmonica and an egg of Cacomantis pallida col- 

 lected on the Woolli Creek on the 19th inst. The cuckoo's egg 

 was deposited on the 17th inst., when the nest contained but two 

 eggs of the Collyriocincla. This is the only occasion he had 

 known the egg of any cuckoo to be found in the nest of the 

 Harmonious Thrush. Mr. North also communicated the following 

 JS'ote : — " Several nests of Maluri and AcanthizcE found during 

 this month contained one and in some instances two of one or 

 the other Bronze Cuckoos, Lamprococcyx plagosus and L. basalis, 

 at present so common in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and it is 

 worthy of remark that frequently when an egg of a cuckoo is 

 deposited in the nest of Malurus cyaneits before the owner has 

 commenced to lay, the occupants of the nest cover over the egg 

 of the parasitical intruder with a thick layer of nest material. 

 Formerly T attributed the finding of the cuckoo's egg imbedded 



