BY W. T. WHITE, ESQ. 139 
coarse, they are fairly smooth to the touch; when fresh they are 
nearly pure white, with only the faintest possible bluish-grey tinge, 
but after being a few days in the nest they become soiled and 
tanned and assume that dingy yellowish-white or pale yellowish- 
brown tint so characteristic of storks’ eggs. In length the eggs 
vary from 2°65” to 3°13”, and in breadth from 1°98” to 2°3"; but 
the average of 45 eggs is 2°91” by 2°12”.” 
The two Ingham specimens may be fairly considered to 
be included in the above definition of Hume. No 1 
measures 2.926” (75 mm.) in length and 2°106” (54 mm.) in 
breadth, and is stained to a slightly darker colour than No. 
2. The latter measures 2'°974” (76 mm.) in length and 
2184” (56 mm.) in breadth, and is also more nearly 
elliptical than No. 1. Both eggs have their surfaces much 
smoother about the middle region than at the poles. 
ON!!! PISH- ‘ACC BIMATIZATION&IN 
OOU EEN) S.A Dy: 
BY 
D. O’CONNOR, Eso. 
(Read on 6th August, 1886.) 
I HAVE been requested to give you an account of a recent 
attempt to acclimatize English fish in our waters. 
Fish acclimatization, although considered in every part of 
the civilised world a subject of importance, has hitherto 
received little or no attention in Queensland, except from 
the gentlemen whose names are mentioned in this com- 
munication. At the request of Mr. R. B. Sheridan, M.L.A., 
who obtained the necessary funds, and kindly assisted by Sir 
Samuel Griffith, who gave me an official letter to the Chief 
Secretary of Victoria, I proceeded to Ballarat a short time 
ago, and through the generosity of the Mayor and the 
Acclimatization Society of Ballarat, received about a hun- 
dred small fish which were placed in six tins of the approved 
