660 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



May, 1885); Mount Victoria (J. H. Maiden; December, 1896); 

 Mount Seaview (J. H. Maiden ; November, 1897) ; Woronora 

 River (J. H. Camfield; January, 1898); Como ( J. H. Camfield; 

 March, 1898); Centennial Park (E. Cheel ; December, 1898); 

 Conjola(W. Heron; September, 1899); Farm Cove (J. H. Cam- 

 field; January, 1903); Port Jackson (J. H. Maiden; October, 1900); 

 Bateman's Bay (J. L. Boorman ; June, 1906); Hurstville (E. 

 Cheel; November, 1910); Richmond (C. T. Musson; April, 1907); 

 Lawson(W. M. Came; March, 1912); Barber's Creek (J. H. 

 Maiden). This is included under P. marginatum R.Br., as a 

 variety, by Bentham; but the different habit, and the wide dis- 

 tribution indicate that it is worthy of specific rank, as pointed 

 out by R. Brown in his Prodromus (p. 190). — Sporobolus austra- 

 lasicus Domin. Specimens of this species, in the National Her- 

 barium, are from Camooweal. It is separated from the closely 

 allied S. pulchellus R.Br., by the longer and coarser leaves, the 

 larger panicle, and the more globular grain. It has been figured 

 in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (xix., 1908, 

 opposite p. 1010), under the name S. pulchellus. — Notochlo'e 

 microdon Domin, (Triraphis(^.) microdon Benth., and Triodia 

 microdon F.v.M., of Moore and Betche's Handbook, p. 493), 

 Lawson and Wentworth Falls (E. Betche; December, 1882, and 

 1894); King's Tableland (W.Forsyth; November, 1898); Govett's 

 Leap, Blackheath (E. Cheel; December, 1900). 



By sanction of the Curator of the Australian Museum, Mr. 

 North sent for exhibition the eggs of seven species of birds col- 

 lected by the late Dr. P. H. Metcalfe on Fanning Island, North 

 Pacific, during 1912-13 — Tatare pistor, Sula sula, S. piscatrix, 

 Phaethon lepturus, Anous stolidus, Micranous leucocapillus, and 

 Gygis Candida. The eggs of Tatare pistor, three in number for a 

 sitting, were taken on the 15th March, 1913, from a deep cup- 

 shaped nest, constructed throughout of fibre, and built in an 

 " Umbrella-tree." The eggs are elongate-oval in form, the shell 

 being close-grained, smooth, and lustreless, of a greyish-white 

 groundcolour, over which are uniformly and freely distributed 

 freckles, dots, and small irregularly shaped spots of umber-brown 



