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handsomest of the whole species; the Black-throated, the Yellow- 
throated, the Wattler, the Brush Wattle Bird, and some other 
varieties. 
Robins are represented by the Yellow, the Pallid, the Red- 
breasted, the Rose-breasted, and the Flame-breasted. 
Kingfishers include the Halcyon, the Azure, and, of course, the 
well-known Laughing Jackass. 
There are also to be met with the Mountain Thrush, the 
Spotted Ground Thrush, the Pied Grallina (commonly known as 
the Magpie Lark or Mud Lark; the Spotted Pardalote, a beautiful 
little bird which lays its eggs in any small hole in the ground ; the 
Wood Swallow, the Blue Wren, Red-eyebrowed Finch, Fire-tailed 
Finch, and several other Finches. 
Many varieties of Tree Creepers are to be seen also, besides a 
number of other birds, including the Red Lorikeet, Rosella, King 
Parrot, Gang Gang, and Black Cockatoo, &c. 
Altogether this district is an excellent field for the naturalist 
and observer, as well as the collector, and will well repay the trouble 
of many visits. 
CLASSIFICATION OF CORALS. 
A LECTURETTE on the above topic was given to the members of the 
Club by Mr J. Dennant, F.G-.S., President, on the 19th May. The 
matter brought forward was professedly derived from the ordinary 
text books, to which those ae are interested in the subject, were 
referred for fuller details. The structure of a living Zoantharian 
was described, the greatest stress being laid upon the hard parts, 
which are the only ones preservéd in the fossil state. It was shewn 
that the system of classification adopted by Milne-Edwards and 
Haime, Duncan, Woods, and others, depended mainly upon the 
arrangement of the septa, together with the presence or absence of 
a columella, pali, synapticulae, dissepiments, &e. The lecturer 
then applied these principles of classification to the various types of 
fossil Corals, with which tertiary geologists are familiar, commencing 
with the Turbinolidae in the section of Madreporaria aporosa, and 
ending with Madreporidae in M. perforata. The lecture was illus- 
trated by numerous drawings of tertiary corals, with outlines of the 
calices of the distinctive types. 
Owing to the highly technical nature the subject, the audience 
was, by request, limited to the members of the Club, who expressed 
themselves as well pleased with the manner in which it had been 
treated. 
