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of clean tide-scoured sand. e alga w 
living shells or those of recently-dead fish, and only growing 
healthily in the former case. Live cockles are the only 
objects to which the Cladophora can fix itself in this 
lowing birds:—Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. ronzewing 
P 1geon) ; Cosmopelia elegans neglecta, Mat. (Brush Bronze- 
wing), from Karoonda; Hypotaenidia philippensis australis, 
rel. il); Porzanoide 
immaculata, Swain. (Easte Spotless Crake); Porzana 
fluminea whitei, Mat. (Southern Spotted Crake), from near 
Paradise, 19/12/18, where the two preceding species an 
Zapornia pusilla palustris, Gld. (Eastern Little Crake), have 
this season been very numerous, also from a waterhole in 
the mallee, near Karoonda; Myzantha melanotis, Wilson 
(Black-eared Minah); Gliciphila albifrons incerta, Mat. 
female; normal specimens were shown for comparison. Mr. 
. G. EpqvisT showed a beetle, the abdomen of which was 
merely an empty skin. It had refused to feed, and had soon 
died. Mr. F. R. Zretz exhibited a complete set of Aus- 
tralian Falcons, viz., Falco longipennis (Little Falcon), F. 
hypoleucus (Grey Falcon), Rhynochodon peregrinus (Black- 
cheeked Falcon), and WNotofaleo subniger (Black Falcon). 
Mr. E. R. Warte showed a plate of baleen (whalebone) from 
the blue, whale in the South Australian Museum; also the 
jaw of a small-toothed whale. Mr. W. J. KiwBER showed a 
fish (Pegasus) from Port Lincoln, and various fossil shell: 
from Port Willunga and Troubridge for identification. THE 
Presipent showed a volume of newspaper cuttings (one of a 
