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2. By Mr. R. Hall, entitled "Field Notes on (a) Hirundo 

 neoxena, Gould, and (b) Pachycephala gutturalis, Lath." 



The author recorded some interesting observations on the 

 nesting of the House-Swallow, Hirundo neoxena, and the White- 

 throated Thickhead, Pachycephala gutturalis. 



His remarks gave rise to some discussion, in which Messrs. 

 Keartland, Le Souef, Coles, Campbell, French, and others took 

 part. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. A t J. Campbell drew attention to Mr. R. Hall's paper on 

 " The Birds of Kerguelen Island," portion of which had recently 

 been published in the Ibis, and regretted that the Club had been 

 unable to publish it in the Naturalist. 



Mr. A. Mattingley stated that on 7th November last, after a 

 thunderstorm, he had captured a silver eel on a precipitous cliff 

 of the Lerderderg Ranges, about sixty yards from the river, and 

 raised the question as to how it came to be in such a place, but 

 no satisfactory answer was elicited. 



Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., drew attention to his exhibit of the type 

 specimens of Victorian fossil calcareous sponges recently de- 

 scribed by Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S. 



Mr. F. J. Ellemor drew attention to an abnormal-plumaged 

 female Australian Pipit, Anthus australis, obtained by him at 

 Bulla. The bill and legs were pale yellow ; crown of head lemon- 

 white splashed with fawn ; ear-coverts fawn ; cheeks lemon-white ; 

 throat and primaries white ; tail white, two centre feathers edged 

 with fawn, darker at the tips ; secondaries white edged with 

 fawn ; breast fawn ; abdomen and under tail coverts creamy 

 white ; upper tail and wing coverts fawn to brown ; rest of 

 plumage white blotched with fawn, and eyes black. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. A. Coles. — Skins of Paradisea raggiana, male and 

 female ; P. rudolphi, Lophorhina superba, Diphyllodes speciosa, 

 Cicinurus regius, Parotia sexpennis, and Craspedophora 

 magnifica. By Mr. F. J. Ellemor. — An abnormal-plumaged 

 Australian Pipit, from Bulla. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S. — Mothi, 

 Satraparchis macrosoma, Lower, new to science, taken by Mr. 

 Brittlebank at Myrniong, Victoria, and Plegetonia irioides, 

 Lower, from N.W. Australia ; also, Erebus agrippinus, the largest 

 moth known, from Brazil. By Mr. C. French, jun. — Specimen of 

 bird and eggs of Black-naped Tern, from North Queensland, and 

 the orchids Pterostylis pedaloglossa and P. parvifiora, from 

 Cheltenham, found flowering 6th May, 1900. By Messrs. J. H. 

 Gatliff and C. J. Gabriel. — Marine shells dredged in Western 

 Port Bay, off Rhyll, Phillip Island. By Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A.— 

 Types of fossil calcareous sponges, from Victoria, lately described 



