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I have the pleasure of exhibiting to-night ; these are authentic 

 eggs of the Australian painted snipe, Rhynchosa australis, and, as 

 will be seen, are identical with the egg I erroneously described as 

 that of GaUinago (Scolopax) australis. Mr. Masters exhibited 

 a beautiful set of the eggs of this Rhynchcea at one of our 

 recent meetings ; the present set are similar in every respect, 

 and were taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett himself, at Ivanhoe, on 

 October 11th, 1885." 



Mr. A. J. North exhibited eggs of Menura Victories, Gould, 

 from S. Gippsland, and of Gerontlcus spinicollis, Jameson, from 

 Hillston, N.S.W. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited some magnificent specimens of the 

 alga Claudea Betmettiana, Harvey, hitherto known only from one 

 small specimen. It was found abundantly near the Heads of 

 Port Jackson during a recent trawling excursion in connection 

 with the Australian Museum. Some of the specimens taken were 

 nearly one foot in diameter. Mr. Whitelegge also exhibited a 

 fine specimen of Eozoon Canadense, and slides of it and of the 

 above-mentioned alga, under the microscope. 



Dr. Hurst exhibited two specimens of Sphenceacus gramineus, 

 together with a nest and three lots of eggs obtained from a 

 mangrove swamp, near Newington, and stated that during the 

 last few weeks he had succeeded in shooting the birds on the 

 nest, thus establishing the identity of the eggs. At the August 

 meeting when he exhibited some of the eggs it was suggested that 

 they were those of Glyciphila ocularis. The eggs of the three 

 takings present some differences among themselves, both as to 

 their markings and dimensions. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited a small fish, belonging to the genus 

 Apogon of which he had picked out large numbers from among 

 prawns caught in the Parramatta River; it belongs to the sub- 

 genus Apogonichthys, but seems to be very distinct from any yet 

 described. He proposes to call it Apogon roseigaster. Attention 

 was drawn to the curious black lobe on each side of the tongue. 



