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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. North exhibited skins, nests and eggs of Acanthiza 

 etvingi, Gould, and Acanthornis magjia, Gould, from Tasmania. 

 They were received by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 in March, 1902, the birds being sent in the flesh. The nest of 

 Acanthiza ewingi is a neat domed-shaped structure, with a rounded 

 entrance in the side. Externally it is formed of thin strips of 

 bark and bark-fibre, and thickl}'" coated with bright green moss, 

 the inside being lined with the rich brown downy covering of 

 freshly budded fern-fronds and a thick laj^er of feathers of the 

 yellow-bellied Parrakeet. It measures externally 4^- inches in 

 height, 3 inches in diameter, and across the entrance 1| inches. 

 The eggs, three in number, are rounded-ovals in form; pure white, 

 with distinct zones on the larger ends formed of small confluent 

 spots, flecks and streaks of different shades of purplish-red. 

 Length (a) 0-68 X 0-52 inch; (b) 0-67 x 0-52 ; (c) 0'69 x 0-5. 

 Two eggs in the collection of Mr. Charles French, Junr., taken 

 prior to 1899 by Mr. G. F. Hinsby on Mount Wellington, near 

 Hobart, measure alike, 0-67 x 0*49 inch. 



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 190i. 



A Special General Meeting and the Ordinar}^ Monthly Meeting 

 of the Society were held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, 

 Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, April 27th, 1904. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. Thomas Steel, F.L.S., F.C.S., in the Chair. 



Business : — To consider the Council's recommendations that 

 the suspension of entrance fees should be given up; and that 

 Rule vi. should be amended so as to provide for the reduction of 

 the entrance fee for Ordinary Members from two guineas to one 



