800 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



of a uniform creamy-brown colour, resembling very much the eggs- 

 of JEluroedus maculosus, but of a more distinct brownish hue. 

 Length (A) 1*63 x 11 inches; (B) 1*62 x 0*9 inches. Subsequently 

 Mr. Sharp found other nests and eggs of the same species. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited a specimen taken from Ficus 

 rubiginosa Desf., a tree of great historic interest, growing in 

 Hyde Park, Sydney. It was presented by his Excellency Sir 

 George Gipps in 1841 to the Honorable Sir Alfred Stephen, who 

 planted it in his garden, and subsequently transplanted it to its 

 present position. He also showed a photograph of the tree taken 

 many years ago, on the back of which is written in Sir Alfred 

 Stephen's writing : " Tree given to me by Governor Sir G. Gipps 

 in 1841, and planted in the Park by me." 



Mr. Basset Hull exhibited the egg of the White Tern (Gygis 

 Candida) in position as laid on a branch of the white-wood tree, 

 taken at Norfolk Island on the 31st October, 1908. This bird 

 lays its single egg in a knot-hole or slight depression on the 

 horizontally-inclined branches of the white oak, white-wood, or 

 other large trees at Norfolk Island, at heights varying from 20 

 to 60 feet from the ground, and incubates it in this position. 

 Advantage is taken of any depression in the branch, but no nest- 

 forming material is added. 



Mr. Fletcher, on behalf of Dr. Cleland, of Perth, showed 

 sections of branches, suckers, and natural seedlings of Nuytsia. 



