HOARY-HEADED GREBE 
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The eggs were uncovered, and I did not see any of 
the birds ; but there could be no mistake in identifi- 
cation, for the eggs, besides being larger in size than 
the smooth eggs of the Black-throated Grebe, were 
covered with rough nodules or excrescences of lime, 
a certain means of distinguishing them. Probably the 
birds were in hiding close by. This fact, of Grebes 
nesting with Marsh Terns, has been noted by Camp- 
bell, though there it was the Black-throated bird. 
It may be that the Grebes consider their nests less 
likely to attract attention if built among a lot of more 
or less similar nests, as the Terns' are. 
YELLOW-WEBBED STORM-PETREL 
Oceanites oceanicus exasyeratus 
This is a small Petrel, with general plumage sooty- 
black, rump white, and centres of the webbed feet 
yellow. Its only known breeding-places are on the 
fringe of the Great Ice Barrier of Antarctica, where 
Wilson found it laying in January in deep crevices 
in the frozen rock. After nesting is over there is a 
movement northward of this and other species of 
Petrels, and through the greater part of the year 
one may expect to note this bird among those that 
follow in the wake of passenger steamers through Bass 
Straits. It has only been obtained once in this district, 
and then in unusual circumstances. 
A few days before Easter, 1910, a schoolboy saw 
