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Mr. Fred Turner exhibited and offered a number of observa- 

 tions on a very fine collection of Australian grasses, being a 

 portion of the herbarium of the late Hon. Dr. James Norton, 

 M.L.C., who was for so many years associated with the Society. 

 Dr. Norton had completed a botanical survey of the area lying 

 within one mile radius of his late country residence, Euchora, 

 Springwood, Blue Mountains. In the deep gullies on this area 

 are a number of cellular as well as vascular Cryptogams. The 

 rarest plants in the locality are Triraphis microdon Benth., 

 amongst Phanerogams; and Botrychium ternatum Swartz, 

 amongst Cryptogams. 



Mr. North sent for exhibition a skin of an adult male of the 

 so-called Cracticus leucopterus of Gould, procured on the 24th 

 July, 1906, by Mr. Tom Carter, of Broome Hill, Western Aus- 

 tralia, together with the following note : — " In the 'Catalogue of 

 Birds in the British Museum '* Dr. H. Gadow regards C. leucop- 

 terus as specifically distinct from C. destructor Temm., and gives 

 its habitat as North-eastern and Western Australia. In Vol.ii. 

 of the Australian Museum Special Catalogue, No.i., ' Nests and 

 Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania,' now 

 passing through the press, I pointed out that the distinguishing 

 characters given by Dr. Gadow to C. leucopterus were equally 

 applicable to very old males of C. destructor, but for want of 

 adult specimens from Western Australia I was unable to state 

 whether O. leucopterus should be regarded as a distinct species. 

 In Dr. R. B. Sharpe's 'Handlist of Birds'! full specific rank is 

 accorded to C. leucopterus. As Dr. Gadow stated of the latter, 

 there is no difference in size between the specimens from Queens- 

 land and those from Perth. I was not surprised to find that 

 the eastern and western birds are alike. The specimen received 

 from Mr. Carter is precisely similar in colour, the extent of white 

 on the wing, and measurements to another adult male of C. 

 destructor exhibited, and obtained by Mr. R. Grant at Cambe- 



* Vol.viii. p.98(1883). 

 t Vol.iv. p. 277 (1903). 



