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The popular style in which the paper was written was apparently 
appreciated. 
Owing to the unavoidable absence of Dr. Dobson, Mr. Topp, and 
Mr. Reader, their papers were postponed for a future meeting. 
The following were the principal exhibits:—By Mr. F. G. A. 
Barnard, coleoptera collected recently at Pakenham, the Plenty 
River, and Beechworth, also photographs of the Lal Lal and 
Moorabool Falls, the scene of the recent excursion; by Mr. D, 
Best, coleoptera collected during the season; by Mr. G. Coghill, 
recent collections of tcoleoptera; by Mr. J. E. Dixon, forty 
species of coleoptera collected during December; by Mr. T. A. 
Forbes-Leith, a pair of Ka-Kas or Hill parrots of New Zealand, 
(Westor Meridionalis); by Mr. C. French, F.L.S., two rare hamming- 
birds, Topaza pella from Cayenne, and Cometes phaon, from Andes 
of Balivia; by Mr. E. H. Hennell, coleoptera from North Queensland; 
by Mr. F, Reader, Victorian lycopods and selaginellas; by Mr. J. F. 
Roberts, the moth orchid of Java, (Phalenopsis grandiflora); by Mr. 
F. Spry, micro-lepidoptera from the Grampians, and part of the core 
from a diamond drill, consisting of slate with fossil impressions, 
from Stawell; by Mr. A. Thie, specimens of rubies, sapphires, and 
other precious stones; by Rey. C. M. Yelland, a young saw-fish caught 
at Brighton. 
After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 
OOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 
By A. J. CampsBeE..t. 
SuppLEMENT. Part II. 
(Read before Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, 14th Dec., 1885) 
ANOTHER season has passed, but not without additions to 
Australian oology, and on account of my own excursion to North 
Queensland in early spring, a little new information has been 
gathered. With regard to ornithological news in the vicinity of 
Rockingham Bay alone—a district very rich in birds—in two 
months I identified over 150 species out of a possible 300. I 
noticed in that locality our common Kingfisher, or Laughing 
Jackass (Dacelo gigas), and a variety of Pennant’s Parrakeet 
(Platycercus Pennant), which have not been previously reported 
above Wide Bay district and the Richmond and Clarence district 
respectively; also the Pale-headed Parrakeet (P. Pallidiceps), 
hitherto doubtful in that locality, and the Rufous-fronted Fantail, 
(Rhipidura rufifrons.) The Uniform-colored Honey-eater (Pélotis 
unicolor) which has only been reported from the Port Darwin and 
Gulf of Carpentaria districts was also seen. Coming more im- 
mediately to oological matters, it might have been more profitable 
