92 Hart, Eticalypts about Crcswick and dunes. [v.V' \\xVv 



bedrock. On the hill a short distance further north, where 

 the road enters the liead of the northward \-alky. there occur 

 E. polyanihemos. Red Box, and E. sidcroxy/oH, Red Ironbark. 

 A very few Ironbarks are just on the southward slope. Thi' 

 other trees here present are the Boxes — Grey, Yellow, and Long- 

 leaved — Broad-leaved Peppermint and Yellow Gum, and /:. 

 Consideniana, Yertchuk, and probably /:. niacrorrhxncha. Red 

 Stringybark. Messmate is not common, but ])robably occurs. 

 E. Consideniana occurs close to the road on the east side, near 

 the top of the hill : at 300 paces eastward along the ridge it is 

 present in quantity. This is a dry situation, and with it are 

 Red Box, Red Ironbark, Long-leaved Box, and Broad-leaved 

 Peppermint, and some (rolden Wattles and Cherry Ballart. 

 E. Consideniana extends a little down the south slope, and was 

 also noticed on a hill to the north, though on the very highest 

 and driest part of this hill Red Box and Red Ironbark were 

 the (^hief trees. 



(To he continued.) 



Our Honour Roll. — The month of August was fatal to two 

 of those sons of members whose names appear in the Honour 

 Roll published in the April Naturalist. Both died while serving 

 King and country in France, or perhaps Flanders, particulars 

 not yet being to hand. On ()th August ("a])tain Frank E. Gatliff, 

 54th Field Artillery, third son Mr. J. H. Gatliff, made the 

 supreme sacrifice, and on nth August Lieut. Norman F. W. 

 Barnard, ist Pioneer Battalion, only son of INIr. F. (i. A. Barnard, 

 was reported killed in action. Both were promising 3'oung men, 

 whose lives could ill be spared in the present crisis, and we 

 extend our readers' sympathies to their sorrowing parents. 



Flying-Fishes. — Our fellow-member, Pri\'ate C. L. Barrett, 

 of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance, A.I.F., writes: — "At 

 Sea. 26th May, 1917. — From the deck of our boat I have just 

 been watching some flying-fishes, and 1 thought that a note 

 might be of some interest to members of the F.N.C. Some 

 observers have declared that these fishes vibrate their large 

 pectoral lins when skimming through the air — in fact, that they 

 use them as wings. My observations to-day. and on a previous 

 occasion when I was voyaging in the Pacific Ocean, convince 

 me that the iins are held rigid all the time that the fish is in the 

 air. However, I did sec one to-day strike the water with its 

 tail ; it did not rise cleanly and rapidly in the first place, and 

 the flip of the tail gave it the necessary- impetus for the flight. 

 Another fish 1 observed made an aerial journey of at least fifty 

 yards. The flying-fishes have been of special interest to me. as 

 we have seen no other form of animal life for some days." 



