260 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. North sent for exhi))ition (1) an adult female Cnculus 

 intermedius, Vahl, a close ally of the common Cuckoo, C. canorus. 

 of Europe; it was received b}' Mr. J. A. Thorpe from Mr, James 

 Yardley, who procured it on Dungay Creek, Tweed River, N.S. W., 

 in August, 1902 ; a specimen was procured in 1904 by Dr. 

 Hamilton Kenny near G^'mpie, Queensland. There are also 

 specimens in the Australian Museum from Wide Ba}', Port 

 Denison and Cairns. (2) An adult male of Ptihfis plamula, 

 obtained in July, 1883, by the late Mr. K. H. Bennett at Moolah, 

 Western New South Wales. And (3) the following sets of eggs : 

 (a) from Mr. A. E. Ivatt's collection, an egg of the Warty-faced 

 Hone3'eater taken by him at Glanmire, near Bathurst, on the 

 12th November, 1894, and with it in the same nest an egg of 

 the Pallid Cuckoo : (6) from Mr. Leslie W. Moore's collection, an 

 egg of the Fulvous-fronted Honeyeater and one of the Pallid 

 Cuckoo taken by him in the nest of the former at Loftus, on 

 the 3rd November, 1900; and three eggs of the Yellow-throated 

 Miner and one of the Pallid Cuckoo, received by him from New 

 Angledool, and taken together from the same nest in September, 

 1901. 



W^EDNESDAY, JULY 26th, 1905. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, July 26th, 1905. 



Mr. T. Steel, F.C.S., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 30 Vols., SQ Parts or Nos., 12 

 Bulletins, 5 Reports, 33 Pamphlets, and 8 Miscellanea, recei\ed 

 from 61 Societies, ikc, and 2 individuals, were laid upon the 

 table. 



