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from a cord under the verandah of the A. U.S.N Company's office 

 at Cooktown, N. Queensland. Two Hving lizards, Tympanocryjotis 

 lineata, captured at Fishermen's Bend, loth October, 1907. 



By Mr. H. J, Coles. — Square-tailed Cuckoo, male, from Ring- 

 wood, 30/11/07. Living orchid, from Blackall Ranges, Queens- 

 land. When collected, August, 1904, there were only two leaves 

 on each stem ; in 1905 and 1906 there were three leaves, and in 

 1907 four leaves to each stem. The specimen has been growing in 

 the open. 



By Mr. C. F. Cole. — Nest of White-plumed Honey-eater, 

 Ptilotis penicillata, Gld., showing an egg of the Pallid Cuckoo, 

 Cuculus pallidus, Lath., woven in near the outside of the bottom 

 of the nest. This egg was doubtless deposited by the cuckoo 

 before the nest had been completed, and had been built over. 

 Collected at Auburn, 7/12/07. Also, specimens of Rose-crowned 

 Fruit-Pigeon, Ptilopus ewingii, Gld., and the Red-backed Wren, 

 Malurus dorsalis, Lew., from Queensland ; and the Bell Minah, 

 Manorhina melanophrys, Lath., from Beaconsfield, Victoria. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Victorian Coleoptera collected recently, 

 including Stigmodera thonipsoni, S. longrda, and S. andersoni ; 

 Diadosus erythrurus, lotherium metalliciun, and Uracanthus 

 bivitta. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Specimens of the Mud-skipper or 

 Climbing Fish, Periophthalmus koelreuteri, from Cooktown, 

 Queensland. 



By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Two specimens of coral, Plesiaslrea 

 urvillei, dredged in Hobson's Bay, 11/07. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Wild flowers from Switzerland col- 

 lected by himself ; also marine shells, Pec^ew keppelliana, Sow., 

 Cape Verde Island, and P. sinensis, Sow., China, and a series 

 of thirteen species of the genus Chlamys, from various parts of 

 the world. 



By Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley. — Abnormal white eggs of Emu, 

 Droniceus novce-hollandice, taken at Narrabri, N.S.W. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



We are pleased to record that the Trustees of the National 

 Museum have purchased the Australian Palaeontological collection 

 of the late Mr. John Dennant, F.G.S., F.C.S., the results of whose 

 work among the fossils of Muddy Creek and other localities are 

 well known. The collection embraces the " types " of the fossil 

 corals described and figured by him, while the greater part of the 

 remainder is especially valuable from the fact that it has been 

 named by the late Professor Ralph Tate, F.L.S., F.G.S., whose 

 work in this branch of science is so widely known. The Trustees 

 of the Museum are to be congratulated on their acquisition of 

 this important collection. 



