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personal attention during the period of incubation, while plovers, 

 ground -parrots, penguins, &c., amongst birds, and salmon, 

 herrings, catfish, &c., among fishes, have their special ways of 

 providing for their eggs and young. 



The paper was illustrated with a number of specimens bearing 

 on the different points mentioned. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour, Mr. T. S. Hall's paper, 

 entitled "The New Rules of Zoological Nomenclature," was 

 postponed until next meeting. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Cuckoos. — Mr. C. French, jun., inquired whether other 

 members had heard the Pallid or Fan-tailed Cuckoos uttering their 

 well-known notes during the night, as recently he had heard 

 several of these birds at Camberwell late in the evening. 



Mr. G. A. Keartland said he had recently heard these cuckoos 

 in the University grounds at nearly midnight. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Flowers of Red Ironbark, Euca- 

 lyptus leucoxylon, from Bulla ; eucalyptus twigs with particularly 

 large galls, from Broadmeadows. 



By Mr. R. A. Bastow. — Typical lichens of the Braybrook 

 district. 



By Miss L. Cowle. — Dried plants from Northern Tasmania. 



By Mr. A. Coles. — Ornaments and native weapons from the 

 Bismarck Archipelago, including shell armlets, money shells, 

 wooden club, bone knife, &c. 



By Miss S. W. L. Cochrane. — Orchids in bloom, Lyperanthus 

 nigricans, Prasophyllum elatum. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Shells, Limopsis rubricata, Tate, 

 dredged in Western Port Bay, about 5 fathoms, associated with 

 the Polyzoa Catenecella hastata. 



By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Nest of Buff-rumped Tit, Geobasileus 

 reguloides. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy. — Fruit of Native Cherry, Exocarpus 

 cupressiformis, early fruiting, from Yan Yean. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Skin of Aj)teryx owenii. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S. (for National Museum). — Nest 

 and clutch of eggs of the White-throated Scrub or Fern Wren, 

 Oreoscopus {Sericornis) gutturalis, De Vis. The nest was built 

 partially in a hole in the ground in a deep gully at Mount 

 Williams, N.E. Queensland. In the Agricultural Gazette 

 (N.S.W.) for March, 1905, Mr. A. J. North created a new genus 

 (Oreoscopits) for this bird, and at the same time described the 

 nest and eggs. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Scorpion, Scorpio afer, from India. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



