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Mr. Trebeck showed the foliage of a seedling peach much 

 spotted with Uromyces amygdali, Cooke. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited growing seedlings of Juncus 2:>rismatocar- 

 pus, R.Br., and J. hohschcemis, R.Br., in illustration of a paper 

 showing that Mr. Bentham was in error in uniting these two 

 species, to be read at next Meeting. 



Mr. R. Greig Smith exhibited cultures of the Ascobacterium 

 from the sugar-cane, described in his paper. Also a culture of 

 Penicillium glaucum obtained from the fresh kino of Eucalyptus 

 piperita, which was remarkable for the development of a crimson 

 colour in the deeper portions of the medium, the colour being 

 probably due to catalase, the oxidising enzyme secreted by the 

 Penicillium, acting on fragments of kino. 



Mr. A. J. North exhibited skins and eggs of Sisura nana, and 

 Rhijndura dryas from the Northern Territory of South Australia. 

 An egg of Sisura nana, taken near the Daly River, in January, 

 1902, is oval in form, the shell being close-grained, and lustreless. 

 It is of a dull buffy-white groundcolour irregularly spotted and 

 blotched with umber-brown, and similar underlying markings of 

 greyish-lilac which form an irregular band around the larger end. 

 Length 0*71 x 0*5 inch. An egg of Rhipidura dryas, taken 

 during January, in the same locality, is a short oval in form, the 

 shell being close-grained and slightly lustrous. It is of a dull 

 yellowish-white groundcolour with an indistinct zone of confluent 

 spots and blotches of dark yellowish-brown, and bluish-grey 

 around the thicker end. Length 0*65 x 0*52 inch. The specimens 

 described were from the collection of Mr. Charles French, Junr. 



He also exhibited a skin of a Grass Pinch with a pale wax- 

 yellow bill from Wyndham, N.W. Australia, in illustration of the 

 following 



Note on some Northern and North-western Austrcdian Grass 

 Finches. 



Among a large number of live birds brought to Sydney a few 

 years ago by M. Octave Le Bon, who had trapped them in North- 



