11 MARKET STREET. Natural History and other Packages, all sizes, delivered any address in Britain, 9D. PER POUND. CONTINENT & AMERICA, Slightly Higher. Weekly. NO TROUBLE. NO OTHER CHARGES. LONDON OFFICE: W. R. SUTTON & CO., GOLDEN LANE, E.C. A. J. HALL (Twenty Years with PAUL THOMAS), IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF FIRST-CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Boots and Shoes made to Order. A SPECIALITY in Ladies' SENSIBLE Boots and ShoesLow Heels and BROAD TOES. New Shipments by every Mail, direct from the Manufacturers. 41 SWANSTON STREET (Between Flinders Lane and Collins Street), MELBOURNE. THE monthly meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, 13th February, 1888. The president, Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc., occupied the chair, and about sixty members and visitors were present. A letter was read from Mr. J. D. Stocks, Lakes' Entrance, with reference to the wholesale slaughter of sea-gulls on the Gippsland Lakes, and was referred to the sub-committee on the protection of birds. The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following donations to the library :-" Iconography of the Acacias of Austral asia," Decades 5, 6, 7, and 8, from the Government; and the "Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia," Vol. V., Part 2, from the society. The hon. secretary read a short account of the Club excursion to Alphington on Saturday, 4th February, which was poorly attended, owing to the threatening weather. The members present devoted themselves to entomology, and worked along the River Yarra, above the Darebin Creek, but, rain setting in, the outing was soon rendered. very unpleasant. However, about twenty-five species of beetles were obtained, also some hymenoptera, diptera, and orthoptera; among the latter may be mentioned two fine specimens of the family phasmidæ (Cyphocrania sp. (?), each measuring over 7in. in length. Mr. J. T. Raw was duly elected a member of the Club. A visitor ("Bush Naturalist," of the Queenslander) was introduced to the meeting, and gave an interesting account of the Queensland alligators. PAPERS READ. 1. By Rev. F. R. M. Wilson, entitled "Notes on Lichens." The author addressed his remarks principally to young beginners, referring to the proper methods of studying lichens. He gave an account of the books obtainable and useful for this branch of botany. 2. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, on "The Oology of Australian Birds," being supplement, Part 4 (for 1887), to his original list. The author described the eggs of sixteen species of Australian birds, recorded for the first time in 1887, and exhibited specimens of most of them. 3. By Mr. H. Watts, entitled "Recent Additions to Microscopical Natural History," in which he mentioned the finding, by himself, of ten new species of animal and other parasites, and the addition of seventeen new species of fresh-water algae to the Victorian list of these plants. Several interesting natural history notes were contributed by members. The following were the principal exhibits of the evening:-By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, a growing specimen of the Victorian fern, Lomaria alpina; also a beetle, Schizorhina frontalis, from Seymour. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, eggs of Australian birds in illustration of his paper; also a sponge, of good commercial value, from King Island. By Mr. E. M. Cornwall, sponges collected at King Island. By Mr. J. E. Dixon, orchid in bloom, Chiloglottis diphylla, var., from Oakleigh. By Mrs. Flatow, a large echinus; also a fan-shaped sponge from Queenscliff. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., 200 species of New Zealand coleoptera, fifty of which are new to science. By Mr. C. French, jun., eggs of Western brown hawk, square-tailed kite, allied harrier, and nankeen kestrel. By Mr. W. R. Guilfoyle, F.L.S., nests and eggs of "tailor bird," Orthotomus Bennettii, from India, and nest of" weaver bird," Plocens Baya, from India. By Mr. G. A. Keartland, a letter winged kite, Elanus scriptus, also ring snakes from Port Darwin. By Mr. D. M'Alpine, F.C.S., a mason wasp's nest. By Mrs. Simson, fossil fruits, etc. By Mr. J. Searle, insects taken at Alphington excursion, also from Studley Park. After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. OOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. By A. J. CAMPBELL. (Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, SUPPLEMENT.-PART IV. ANOTHER year of grace is past, which brought with it considerable developments regarding our knowledge of Australian Oology. In the first place, since my last supplementary sheets we shall have to acknowledge descriptions of new eggs, by Dr. E. P. Ramsay, of Falco subniger (Black Falcon), Strix candida (Grass Owl), Amytis striatus (Striated Wren), Paecilodryas superciliosa (White-eyebrowed Robin), Malurus melanotus (Black-backed Superb Warbler), Malurus callainus (Turquoisine Superb Warbler), Donacola castaneothorax (Chestnut-breasted Finch), Pophila gouldia (Gouldian Grass-Finch), Sittella tenui10stris, Climacteris erythrops (Red-eyebrowed Tree-Creeper), Ptilotis notata (Yellow-spotted Honey-eater), and Sericulus melinus (Regent-Bird). [Vide Vol. I. (Series 2nd) of the "Pro1. ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales."] Also description, by Mr. A. J. North, of Strepera melanoptera, Strepera intermedia, Artamus melanops (Black-faced Wood Swallow), Malurus cyanochlanys, Acanthiza uropygialis (Chestnut-rumped Warbler), Paphila acuticauda (Long-tailed Grass-Finch), Acanthorhynchus dubius, Zosterops flavogularis, Megaloprepia assimilis (Allied Fruit Pigeon), Rhipidura diemenensis (Tasmanian Fantail), Gallinula rufurissa (Rufous-vented Gallinule), Tadorna radjah (Radjah Shieldrake), Melanodryas picata (Pied Robin), and Eudynamis cyanocephala (Australian Koel). Vide Vol. II. (Series 2nd) of the "Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales."] But the eggs of Strepera melanoptera, S. intermedia, and Rhipidura diemenensis are already well known in our collections under more familiar synonyms, while the Spine-bill of Tasmania (Acanthorhynchus dubius) is certainly a very doubtful species, because some of those birds noticed by the Club's recent expeditions in an intermediate locality like King Island apparently did not differ from the Victorian variety (A. tenuirostris). I need not here give the descriptions of all the abovementioned, because I understand they are likely shortly to appear in a more substantial and acceptable form. However, it is with much pleasure I now beg the Club to accept the following descriptions of other new eggs :— 15. ASTUR NOVE-HOLLANDIE-(White Goshawk). Locality -Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Egg-Beautiful bluish white, with a few large smudges, and specks of purplish brown, some of each appearing beneath the shell's surface; the inner shell greenish. Length, 2 inches; breadth, 1 inches. For the description of this beautiful Hawk's egg I am indebted to Mr. Arthur E. Brent, of Roseneath, Tasmania. He further adds "Nest composed of very fine, dry sticks, broken freshly from the extreme ends of dry branches, very flat, with a few green peppermint gum-leaves forming the receptacle for the |