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most instances heavily incubated eggs or young birds in all stages 

 •of growth. Hitherto the Storm-Petrel has not been recorded as 

 breeding on the coast of New South Wales, Mud Island, Port 

 Phillip, being the most northerly limit on record. The Penguins 

 are known to breed on Montague Island, and the ToUgates, off 

 Bateraan's Bay, and this adds another, more northerly record of 

 the breeding-place of this species. P^iffinus chlororhynchus 

 Lesson, and Demiegretta sacra Gmelin, were also observed pre- 

 paring their nests on Tom Thumb Island. 



Mr. C. F. Laseron, by permission of tlie Curator, Technological 

 Museum, exhibited a remarkable specimen of Conularia Icevigaia 

 Morris[MoLLUSCA] which was lately forwarded to the Museum 

 by Mr. H. Melville, School-teacher at Lochinvar near Maitland, 

 N.S. W., who obtained it from that district. Very little is known 

 of the aperture in this genus, so that the specimen, which has 

 this structure very well preserved, is of considerable scientific 

 value. In this case the four walls of the shell are bent sharply 

 inwards into the aperture; a fortunate fracture having revealed 

 that they continue downwards into the shell, with a gradual 

 convergence for at least | of an inch, the cavity below this point 

 being tilled with matrix. The ornamentation is also continued 

 without interruption on the infolded portions of the sides. 



Mr. T. H. Johnston exhibited a series of Entozoa collected in 

 New South Wales. The following species were represented : — 

 Hymenolejyis sp.(immature),from the intestine of a duck(Bathurst); 

 H. carioca Magaelh., Davainea cesticillus Molin, and D. tetragona 

 Molin, from the intestine of fowls (Sydney, Bathurst); Echino- 

 rhynchus sp., from the rectum of the black snake, Pseudechys 

 porphyriacus Shaw,(Gosford, Sydney); Physaloptera sp., from the 

 stomach and duodenum of the tiger-snake, Notechis scutatus{Syd- 

 ney); (Esophagostomum sp., a very small reddish species which 

 sometimes occurs in hundreds in the upper part of the duodenum 

 of Miis decu77umus Pall., (Sydney); Hymenolepis murina Duj., 

 Gigantorhynchus moniliformis Bremser, and Trichocej^hahis nodo- 

 sus Rud., from the intestine of M. alexandrinus Geoffr., (Sydney); 



