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be hoped that the list, having been published under such 

 auspices as the Association, and on such a good foundation as 

 that of the British Museum, will be adopted by all Australian 

 workers, and thus put an end to the confusion at present 

 existing. 



List of Victorian Shells. — Mrs. A. F. Kenyon writes in 

 reply to the review by Prof. R. Tate of her list of Victorian 

 Marine Mollusca published in the Victorian Naturalist for July 

 last. The letter is too long for publication, but Mrs. Kenyon 

 says that " as the list was not published at the expense of any 

 society, or offered for sale, I fail to see what right your corre- 

 spondent had to review, it having been sent to him as an act of 

 courtesy. The list has received generous recognition from 

 scientists in Australia, Great Britain, and America, despite the 

 printer's faulty spelling, which was solely owing to its publication 

 during my absence from home, and therefore non-revisal of proof 

 sheets. Being unwilling to incur the expense of reprinting, I had 

 a few of the more noticeable errata printed, thinking that as 

 every conchologist worthy of the name would know how to spell 

 that would sufhce." 



NOTES. 



Rufous Scrub-Bird. — From correspondence just received I 

 am enabled to give a provisional description of the nest and eggs 

 of the Rufous Scrub-Bird, Atrichia rvfet^cens, Ramsay, discovered 

 by Mr. S. W. Jackson and party in the Clarence River district, 

 N.S. Wales, 20th October, 1898. 



Nest. — Dome-shaped, with side entrance, constructed of dead 

 leaves, ferns, twigs, &c ; lined inside with a curious whitish, 

 cardboard-like material, and situated in a clump of grass about 

 6 inches from the ground. Dimensions — length 9 inches, breadth 

 6 inches, entrance 2^ inches across. 



Eggs. — Clutch, 2 ; short or round oval in form ; texture of 

 shell fine ; surface glossy ; colour warm or pinkish white, with a 

 patch of confluent markings on the apex of pinkish red or reddish 

 brown and purplish brown, also spots of the same colours are 

 scattered sparingly over the rest of the surface. Dimensions in 

 inches: — (i) 92 x 72, (2) -87 x 7. It will be noticed that one 

 of these eggs is appreciably larger than the other, and that of all 

 Australian birds' eggs they most resemble those of the Sphenurse 

 or Bristle-Birds. — A. J. Campbell. 



LvRE-BiRDS. — I have been for many years endeavouring to 

 ascertain the period of incubation of the Lyre-bird, Menura 

 victorice. At last I have succeeded, through the kind services of 



