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in the breeding season was filled with productive eggs, 

 and five were hatched out. One of the Birds so hatched 

 is still living, and, if an importation of Male Birds can be 

 secured, there is no doubt that in a few years the constant 

 reproduction of this curious species would be a matter of 

 certainty. As it is not only extremely prolific, but an excel- 

 lent meat for the table, it is to be hoped that the energetic 

 support which has been recently afibrded to the Society in 

 Sydney will soon supply the existing deficiency. 



Although the Talegalla is the only species of Megapo- 

 didfe at present in the collection, the Society have within 

 a recent date possessed the Mallee Bird, Leipoa ocellata, 

 and the Maleo, — a bird so rare, that scarcely any of the 

 Museums except our own and those of Holland contain 

 skins of it. 



The species of Gallinaceous Birds are as follows : — 



1. Tiaamus brasiliensis ? 



2. ? 



3. Pterocles alchata. 



4. Callipepla californica. 



5. Ortyx virginianus. 



6. cubensis. 



7. Arboriphila torqueola. 



8. Francolinus clappertoni. 



9. vulgaris. 



10. Lophopborus impeyanus. 



11. Gallophasis melanotus. 



12. albocristatus. 



13. horsfieldii. 



14. Thaumalea picta. 



15. Gennseus nj'cthemerus. 



16. Catreus wallichii. 

 17- Numida cristata. 



18. Meleagris ocellata. 



19. Polyplection chinquis. 



20. Pavo cristatus. 



21. Talegalla lathami. 



22. Pauxi mitu. 



23. Crax globicera. 



24. carunculata. 



25. Penelope superciliaiis. 



26. Ortalida katraca ?. 



6. The Pigeons comprise a very large number of spe- 

 cies, without so essential a variety as other groups of the 

 same value. The following list is, however, more restricted 

 than the Council could wish : — 



COLUMB.E. 



1. Gonra coronata. 



2. victoriae. 



3. Calaenas nicobarica. 



4. Geophaps scripta. 



5. Phaps chalcoptera. 



6. elegans. 



7- Leucosarcia picata. 



8. Ocyphaps lophotes. 



9. Zenaida amabilis. 



10. Turtur senegalensis. 



1 1 . risorius. 



12. auritus. 



13. Ectopistes niigratorius, 



14. Columba gymnophthaltna. 



15. maculosa. 



16. leucocephala. 



17- palumbus. 



7. Of the ScANSORiAL Birds, the collection of Parrots 

 is undeniably the finest in existence, and for some time has 



