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together with a photo of the nest. The original examples and 

 joung died on the approach of cold weather, but Mr. Waite 

 hoped to be more successful with the specimens exhibited, 

 recently imported from Pinang. 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton showed specimens of a thalloid Hepatic 

 {probably Targionia sp.) remarkable for its fruits being borne on 

 the underside of the apex of the thallus; specimens of a Riccia 

 growing on damp soil; specimens of Phylloglossum Drummondii 

 (LvcoPODiACEiE) from Western Australia; and a specimen of a 

 rather localised species, Boronia Barkeriana F.v.M., collected at 

 ■Sailor's Bay, near Willoughby. 



Mr. W. S. Dun exhibited a specimen of a large Co7iularia from 

 the Carboniferous mudstone of Clarence Town. This Pteropod 

 was a large one, though smaller than C. inornata occurring 

 in the Permo-Carboniferous, which attained a length of 20 inches. 

 The species brought to light at Clarence Town is new and is 

 easily distinguishable from C. quadrisulcata Miller, recorded by 

 De Koninck from the Carboniferous of Gloucester, N.S.W. 



Mr. North sent for exhibition a skin and set of two eggs of 

 Melithreptus albigularis Gould. They were obtained at Cop- 

 manhurst on the Clarence River, New South Wales, by Mr. 

 George Savidge, who also forwarded a nest he had procured on 

 the 22nd instant. Altogether three birds in the flesh had been 

 received. Previously this species had not been recorded from 

 further south than Wide Bay, Queensland. In the Catalogue of 

 Birds in the British Museum (Vol. ix.). Dr. H. Gadow regards M. 

 albigularis as only subspecifically distinct from M. lunnlatus 

 Shaw. There is, however, no intergradation between these two 

 birds, and in addition to the olive-yellow upper parts, and white 

 <;hin of M. albigidaris, it is furthermore distinguished b}^ having 

 the bare skin above and behind the eye dull greenish-blue, which 

 in i/. lunuiatus is rich orange-scarlet. Mr. North also recorded 

 seeing an Albatros {Thalassogeron cautus) on the 22nd ult. at 

 the entrance of Lavender Bay. It was resting on the water not 

 far from Milson's Point, but on the approach of a ferry steamer 



