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Mr. E. M. Cornwall made some remarks on the sharks of 

 Western Port Bay. 



2. By Mr. G. A. Keartland, entitled " Notes of a Day among 

 the Birds at Melton." This was a very interesting account of an 

 outing at Melton, about 23 miles N.W. of Melbourne, a district 

 which, the author stated, would well repay the attentions of ornith- 

 ologists, as, during several visits to the district, he had noted 83 

 species of birds within a radius of six miles of the station. 



3. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, entitled "The Oology of Australian 

 Birds," being the supplement No. 5 for 1888. He described the 

 eggs of the following birds, taken for the first time in 1888, viz. — 

 Strix tenebricosa, the sooty owl ; Ninox maculata, spotted owl ; 

 N. boobook, boobook owl; Chibia bradeata, spangled dronga shrike ; 

 Ardea sumatrana, great billed heron ; Porzana fluminea^ spotted 

 water crake ; P. tabuefisis, tabuan water crake ; P. pahistns, little 

 water crake, and Pterodroma gouldii, great winged petrel. 



Natural History Note. — Mr. F. G. A. Barnard read some 

 further notes on the life history of the butterfly lalmenus evagorns, 

 Don. 



The principal exhibits of the evening were : — By Mr. D. Best, 

 boxes of longicorn beetles (duplicates). By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, 

 wasps with nest from Plenty River, butterflies in illustration of 

 notes. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, nine species of Australian birds' 

 eggs in illustration of his paper, those of Sirix tenebricosa^ Ninox 

 maculata, Chibia b9acteaia, and Porzana fluininea, being exhibited 

 for first time. By Mr. A. Coles, pair tippet grebes (mounted) 

 with young, and egg. By Mr. C. French, jun., eggs of Australian 

 tippet grebe, hoary-headed grebe, black-throated grebe, straw- 

 necked ibis, and little water-crake from Victoria, and red-necked 

 rail from Queensland. By Mr. W, R. Guilfoyle, flowers of three 

 different coloured varieties of Eucalyptus ficifolia (F.v.M.), 

 " Scarlet flowering gum-tree " from Broken Inlet, Western Aust- 

 ralia, grown at Melbourne Botanical Gardens. By Mr. R. Hall, 

 fresh-water and marine shells. By Master G. Hill, case of coleop- 

 tera. By Master H. Hill, case of Victorian house-building lepi- 

 doptera, also specimens from the Hot Lakes, New Zealand. By 

 Mr. G. A. Keartland, 32 birds in illustration of paper; large 

 collection of this season's birds' eggs from King Island ; also 

 eggs from South Australia. By Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., sea- 

 urchin Gonocidaris tubaria^ also two fish ( Chilobranchus rufus and 

 Syngnathus mar gar it if er ) new to Victoria. By Mr. G. Lyell, 

 jun., butterfly Heterojiympha cordace, from Jindivick, Gippsland. 

 By Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., rare and partly new Aus- 

 tralian plants. By Mr, F. Pitcher, orchids, Orthoceras strictuvi, 

 and Cryptostylis longifoh'a, from Frankston and Langwarrin. By 

 Mr. C. Yelland, specimens of Strophtmthus, a poisonous plant 

 from Central Africa. 



After the usual conversazioJie the meeting terminated. 



