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) 2x1-5 inch ; (F) 2 x 1-5 
inch; (G) 2-03 x 1-52 inch ; (H) 2-07 x 1-52 inch; (I) 1-95x1-47 
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 .) 
MALACOllHYNCHUS MEMBRANACEUS, Gould. 
Pink-eared Duck. 
Gould , Handbk. Bds. Aunt., 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. memhranaceus 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, 2Gth 
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 ; (1>) 
1-97 x 1-47 inch ; (C) 2 02 x 1*45 inch ; (D) P98 x 1-47 inch ; 
(E) 1-99 x 1-46 inch; (F) 1-96 x D42 inch. 
