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chestnut rufous, with blackish-brown bars, the remaining ones 

 having their inner webs with the bars obsolete at the distal 

 end ; under surface of tail paler ; shoulder and lesser 

 wing coverts chestnut-rufous ; outer webs of primaries bright 

 rufous, with blackish-brown bars, inner webs uniform earthy- 

 brown ; secondaries rufous, with pale vermiculations ; under 

 surface of quills much paler than upper ; under wing coverts 

 tawny white ; chin whitish ; throat, chest, and breast white, 

 flushed with tawny, and faintly arrowhead barred, except on 

 breast ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts white ;. lores 

 creamy white ; cheeks creamy white on proximal half, rufous on 

 distal ; upper mandible at base flesh-colour, shading into brown 

 at tip ; culmen blackish-brown ; irides brown ; legs and feet 

 browny cream. Total length, 9.5 inches; wing, 5 inches; tail, 

 5 inches ; tarsus, 0.8 inch ; bill, from gape to tip, i inch. 

 Habitat. — Derby, North-West Australia. 



EOCENE DEPOSITS AT MOONEE PONDS. 

 By G. B. Pritchard, 

 Lecturer on Mineralogy, &c.. Working Men's College, Melbourne. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, Ibth June, 1901.) 

 In 1896 Mr, T. S. Hall and myself contributed a paper to the 

 Royal Society on the Tertiaries in the neighbourhood of Mel- 

 bourne, which showed pretty conclusively that fossiliferous 

 localities are fairly common and distributed over a wide area 

 within easy reach. The prevailing character of the out-cropping 

 Tertiary deposits in this area is ferruginous sands, sandstones, 

 grits, gritstones, and occasional conglomerates ; and in hunting 

 for fossils it is usually the finest-grained material that yields the 

 best results, both in number and preservation of specimens. But 

 the coarser materials must in no way be overlooked, for some- 

 times very fair specimens can be obtained at localities of the 

 utmost importance from a stratigraphical point of view. Too 

 much care cannot be taken in collecting fossils around Mel- 

 bourne, and it is not sufficient to know that all the specimens 

 obtained came from the same locality, but they must be taken 

 from the same bed or level. This precaution is necessary as 

 there are at least two distinct palaeontological zones, though 

 there may be practically no lithological difference in the rock in 

 which the fossils occur. I might, perhaps, here include the 

 names of a few of the commoner fossils that can be collected from 

 each of these horizons. 



From the upper beds, which have been referred to as Miocene 

 on account of the fossils showing a close agreement with beds of 

 that age at Muddy Creek and other typical localities in the 



