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having the bare skin above and behind the eye dull greenish- 

 bhie, which in M. luniilatiis is rich orange-scarlet. Of curious 

 nesting sites of the Rock-Warbler {Origma rubricata) Mr. A. F. 

 Hull informed Mr. North that a pair had built their nest round 

 a piece of string hanging down inside from the roof of a tent at 

 Freshwater, Manly. This tent, the entrance to which was 

 partially concealed by a rock shelter, was occupied from 

 Saturday to Monday, and every other night, by several youths, 

 but the birds, unconcerned at their presence, had finished the 

 nest, and the female had since the 17th inst. been sitting on a 

 full complement of eggs. Last year, Mr. Herbert E. Ross 

 informed him, a pair had built their nest in a small cave that 

 had been fitted up as a dark-room for photographers, in the 

 rocky and spacious grounds of a well-known resort at Medlow, 

 on the Blue Mountains. At Lane Cove Mr. Arthur Muddle 

 found a nest last year attached to the timbers beneath the 

 verandah of a waterside cottage, and in the same locality 

 several seasons ago Mr. Edgar R. VVaite saw a nest containing 

 young attached to the roof inside a bathing-box at Longue- 

 ville. 



Hutton Memorial Research Fund. 



A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Philosophical Institute of 

 Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, stating it has been 

 resolved by the Institute that it is desirable that, in memory of 

 Captain F. W. Hutton, a fund be established, to be known as 

 the " Hutton Memorial Research Fund," devoted to the 

 encouragement of original research in Natural Science in New 

 Zealand, such fund when established to be vested in and con- 

 trolled by the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. 

 These resolutions were followed by a suggestion to the last- 

 named body that, in addition to making grants from time to 

 time to persons engaged in original research, a bronze medal be 

 struck, to be called the " Hutton Medal," and to be awarded at 

 suitable intervals to persons who have made original contribu- 

 tions of special value to the Natural Science of New Zealand. 

 To save time the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury has 

 commenced the collection of subscriptions for the purposes 

 above mentioned, with the view of afterwards handing them 

 over to the New Zealand Institute, and contributed ^^50 from 

 its funds. The Philosophical Institute desires aid from all 

 kindred bodies in this matter, than which there could hardly be 

 a better method of perpetuating the memory of the late 

 deservedly honoured president of the A.O.U. The Institute 

 makes a special claim for contributions on the ground that, 

 whilst the influence and importance of research is becoming 



