400 APPENDIX. 



1-96 X 1-48 inch ; (B) 1-97 x 1-47 inch ; (C) 1-95 x 1-47 inch ; 

 (D) 2-1 X 1-5 inch ; (E) 2 X 1-46 inch ; (F) 2 x 1-5 inch ; (F) 2 x 1-5 

 inch ; (G) 2-03 x 1-52 inch ; (H) 2-07 x 1-52 inch ; (T) 1-95 x 1-47 

 inch ; (J) 2 X 1-49 inch ; (K) 1-97 x 1-5 inch. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, 

 West and South-west Australia. (Ramsay.) 



MALACORHYNCHUS MEMBRANACEUS, Gould. 



Pink-eared Duck. 



Gould, Hcmdhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 590, p. 372. 



The Trustees of the Australian Museum have lately received 

 from Mr. K. H. Bennett several nests of the Pink-eared Duck, 

 taken at Yandembah during 1889, one of them is. placed on the 

 deserted nest of Geronticus spinicollis, which was built on the top 

 of a Polygonum bush about eighteen inches above the water. The 

 nest of G. spinicollis is a flat structure composed of thorny sticks 

 and twigs interlaced through one another, and measures eighteen 

 inches in width, by five in height. That of M. m^mbranaceus is 

 elliptical in form, and is composed entirely of down plucked from 

 the breast of the parent bird, and measures twelve inches in width 

 by five inches in height. To another nest Mr. Bennett has 

 attached the following note : — " Taken at Yandembah, 26th 

 August, 1889. The nest is placed on an old disused nest of 

 Tribonyx ventralis, built on the lower dead horizontal stems of a 

 Polygonum, bush about a foot above the water, and was screened 

 from view in a great measure by the overhanging green top of 

 the bush. The eggs were placed as now in the nest and were 

 completely covered by the down." 



The eggs from the above nest are six in number, of a rich creamy- 

 white, and measure as follows : — Length (A) 2 x 1'43 inch ; (B) 

 1-97 X 1-47 inch ; (C) 2 02 x 1-45 inch ; (D) 1-98 x 1-47 inch ; 

 (E) 1-99 X 1-46 inch; (P) 1-96 x 1-42 inch. 



