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Total length 10'5 inches from tip of bill; bill from forehead 06, 

 from nostrils 03, from angle of mouth 075, in width 025 ; bristles 

 black, in length 0'4 ; wing from flexure 32 ; tail 3"6. 



Hab. Margins of scrubs and " opens," Rockingham Bay, Endea- 

 vour river, and N.E. coast. 



Description of the Egg of Chlamydodera maculata. 



In form elongated, tapering; shell thin and delicate, somewhat 

 shining and smooth. Ground-colour of a delicate greenish-white 

 tint, surrounded with narrow, wavy, twisted, irregular, thread-like 

 lines of brown, dark umber, light umber brown, and a few blackish 

 brown, which cross and recross each other, forming an irregular net- 

 work round the centre and thicker end ; towards the thinner end 

 they are not so closely interwoven, and light brown lines appear as if 

 beueath the surface of the shell, also a few black irregular-shaped 

 linear markings, much broader than the rest, show conspicuously 

 against the pale greenish white ground ; and here and there, over 

 the whole surface, are scattered ill-shapen figures resembling twos, 

 threes, and fives (2, 3, 5), of various tints of colour. 



Length 1*5 inch, breadth 1. 



For the first specimen of this rare egg I am indebted to my friend 

 J. B. White, Esq., who procured it at Springsure, some 200 miles 

 inland from the N.E. coast. 



November 17, 1874. 

 George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of October 1874 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the mouth of October 1874 was 69 ; of which 4 were 

 by birth, 29 by presentation, 24 by purchase, and 12 were received 

 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period 

 by death and removals was 72. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of October were 

 as follows : — 



1. A Gentoo Penguin (Pygosceles tccniatus) from the Falkland 

 Islands, purchased October 22nd, being the first example of this 

 species of Penguin received alive. 



2. A Tooth-billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris) from the 

 Samoan Islands, deposited by Mrs. Boddam-Whetham, October 

 23rd, and subsequently presented to the Society by Mr. J. W. 

 Boddam-Whetham. 



The Secretary exhibited the egg referred to by the Rev. S. J. 

 Whitmee, in his communication read March 17, 1874 (see P. Z. S. 

 1874, p. 184), as that of Pareudiastes pacifcus, and an accompanying 

 egg of the Samoan Porphyria. In a letter recently received Mr. 



