Proceedings of the Royal Society for May, 1873

The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, the 13th May, J. Barnard, Esq., in the chair.
-In reference to the parrot presented by Mr. Kearney, Mr. Swan remarked that he believed it to be an abnormal specimen of Rosella (Platycercus eximius) only, and not a cross—as aberrant forms of this genus were very frequent.
-After reading some remarks by Mr. EoUings, of Forcett, as to the stone implements of our aborigines, the Acting-Secretary observed that it was strange none of the handles spoken of, as being used with the larger implements, had been preserved; and Mr, Swan suggested that it was quite possible those natives whom Mr. Rollings had seen fixing handles to the stones had acquired the art from Europeans, as none of the early accounts mentioned implements with handles.
-The attention of the Fellows was especially called to the mounted specimens of the Apteryx and Night Parrot, which had been admirably set up by Mr. Gaskell of Melbourne at a very trifling cost.