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which was about 10 inches or a foot in height. | Later I 
ae _ noticed that the hen had shifted the eggs back to the 
Ly nest. I again removed the eggs, and stood near-by and 
5, ; watched the hen. She went up to the eggs, and with great 
, care lifted one at a time by pressing the egg against her 
r breast by means of her chin, hopped easily over the log, 
< and put the egg back in the nest, returning immediately 
= for the others, which were lifted in the same manner. As 
| I was standing quite close to the hen, which was a very 
: tame one, I could see the whole process of transfer quite 
Coes plainly. I have thought it possible that a similar plan may 
Si be adopted by the cuckoo. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
CHLAMYDOPSIS EPIPLEURALIS, Lea:—Aust. Nat., Vol. 
IV., pt. 2, pl. I1—Owing to the blocks of this drawing 
’ not being reduced sufficiently in size, the magnifications: 
stated thereof, x 16, are unfortunately incorrect. The 
correct magnifications now are x 19. The actual length of 
the beetle is 234 m.m. —H. H. Zeck. 
Tue War ANp Zoonogican Garpens—The following 
extract from a letter recently received from London will 
interest Naturalists:—‘‘Professor Hill has been several 
times at the ‘‘Zoo’’ lately seeing what animals can be | 
dispensed with, and they are to be replaced by milk-cows, 
hens, ducks, rabbits, ete., all of use in this country in 
times such as these, and the keepers are to take charge of 
3 700.’ 2? 
appeared recently in the ‘‘Sydney Morning Herald’’:— 
‘A recent report stated that a large quantity of shrimps 
Chief Secretary, the Minister controlling the State 
ae Fisheries, advises that steps were immediately taken to se- 
ae eure specimens of these shrimps, which have now come to 
a hand, and are pronounced by the ichthyologist at the Aus- 
tralian Museum to be the freshwater shrimp, Yiphocaris 
compressa. These crustaceans are found in great abun- 
dance in fresh water throughout our river systems, and the 
them. It seems such a pity to kill off the animals in the — 
‘Surmmps FROM THE Sky.—The following paragraph 
fell near Singleton in a prolonged shower of rain. The 
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