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Mr. G. Coghill and Dr. Kaufmann referred to the good work 

 Mr. Fulton had done during the four years he had held the 

 position of librarian, and moved that the thanks of the Club be 

 forwarded to him, which was carried. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Superb Warbler.— Mr. G. A. Keartland said that he had 

 noticed a few days previously a Superb Warbler, Malurus cyaneus, 

 Ellis, in full summer plumage, and asked whether others had 

 noticed similar instances. 



Mr. F. Pitcher said that he had recently noticed about a dozen 

 of the birds in the Botanical Gardens, none of which had coloured 

 plumage, but a week previously he had seen one in the summer 

 plumage. 



Young Cuckoo. — Miss B. Keartland (junior member) reported 

 that, on 1 6th October last, she had noticed a young Bronze 

 Cuckoo perched on a low bush, and constantly crying for food, 

 whilst four small birds (two Superb Warblers, Malurus cyaneus, 

 and two Yellow-rumped Tits, Acanthiza chrysorrhoa) kept flying 

 backwards and forwards bringing the cuckoo insects^ which it 

 voraciously devoured. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. H. Baker, F.L.S., F.R.M.S.— Fossil Devonian 

 corals, England. 



By Mr. J. W. Bainbridge. — Live Ant-lion, Vermeleon, sp., 

 with sand in which it was found, from Flinders Range, South 

 Australia. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Eggs of Spotless Crake, Porzana 

 tabuensis, from South Australia. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Fungus, Cordyceps taylori, on 

 larva of moth, or " Vegetable Caterpillar," from Otway Forest ; 

 various fossil bones, and the skull of an aboriginal, from Lake 

 Colangulac, near Camperdown, Victoria; orchid, Acianthus 

 exsertus, from Werribee Gorge, having bloomed iji cultivation at 

 Kew ; silicified wood from Warragul. 



By Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S. — Spine-tailed Lizard, Egernia 

 stokesii ; Ant-lions, in sjDirit, from Flinders Range, South Aus- 

 tralia. 



By Mr. A. Mattingley. — Eggs of Coachwhip-bird, Psophodes 

 crepitans, from Olinda Valley, Dandenong Ranges. 



By Mr. W. H. A. Roger. — Two male and female moths, 

 Ghelepteryx coUesi, Grey, and cocoon, from Springvale. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Fresh-water alga, Pediastrum, probably 

 P. pertusum, Ritz., from Zoological Gardens. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



