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Prasophyllum rufum 

 Corysanthes pruinosa 

 Pterostylis nutans 

 R rufa 



Eriochilus fimbriatus 

 Caladenia coerulea 

 C. cairnsiana 

 Calectasia cyanea 

 Xerotes thunbergii 

 Xanthorrhoea minor 

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 Alisma plantago 

 Trithuria submersa 

 Lepyrodia interrupta 

 Scirpus nodosus 

 Gahnia (Cladium) radula 

 Panicum sanguinale 

 Lepturus cylindricus 

 Aira c^spitosa 

 Danthonia carphoides 

 Woodwardia aspera 

 Grammitis rutifolia 



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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN BIRDS' EGGS. 



By D, Le Souef, C.M.Z.S. 

 {Bead before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, \4:th August, 1899.) 

 AsTUR LEUCOSOMUS, Lesscr White Goshawk. 



These beautiful birds are found in Northern Austrrlia, es- 

 pecially in the Gulf country, but their nest and eggs do not seem 

 so far to have been described. They were noticed by Mr. E. 

 Olive building near the Victoria River in October last, but he did 

 not succeed in procuring their eggs. The breeding season is from 

 September to January, according to the season, as the birds often 

 delay nesting until the rainy season has set in. The nest is built 

 of sticks and lined with finer twigs and Eucalyptus leaves, and 

 measures — external diameter, 12 inches; internal, 7 inches; ex- 

 ternal depth, 7 inches ; internal, 4 inches ; and was placed at the 

 fork of a horizontal branch of a Eucalyptus tree, about 50 feet 

 from the ground. The eggs are ovate in shape, being slightly 

 smaller at one end, and are a dull white, with a few faint greyish 

 markings distributed over the egg, and, as is often the case with 

 hawks' eggs, they are much stained. They measure — {a) 1.52 x 

 1. 18, (6) 1.54 X 1. 19 inch. This bird is considered by some to 

 be simply a smaller variety of Astur 7iovce-hollandice, and I con- 

 sider it so myself. 

 Entomyza albipennis. White-quilled Honey-eater. 



Northern Australia is the home of these birds. They are very 



