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( Rhipidura albiscapa and rvjifrons), Mountain Thrushes (Oreo- 

 cincla ItcnidataJ, Yellow-breasted Robins ( Eopsaltria australis), 

 the Brown Tree Creeper (Climacteris scandensj, and the Pipit 

 Lark (AntJius australis), were seen, and the harsh notes of the 

 Black and Gang Gang Cockatoos were heard. A few Lepidoptera, 

 as Xenica kerslimoi, and some Lycaenidas and Hesperidas, were 

 seen, but the place being so damp through the heavy rains of the 

 previous afternoon and evening, but few of the better kinds were 

 to be met with. 



As it was now getting late we made a start for the hotel. Our 

 little bird friend, being either unwilling to lose our company or glad 

 to get rid of us, hovered around us when we had already started. 

 The hotel was reached in time for dinner, which, after being out 

 all day, was done ample justice to. 



Upon the whole we had been fairly successful, and although 

 other collecting fields are no doubt preferable to this part, we 

 had little cause for complaining, the general dryness of the 

 country being no doubt responsible for the comparative scarcity 

 of specimens. 



Had we had time we might have crossed the range to some 

 other good gullies, and where there are some splendid trees. We 

 reached Melbourne shortly after nine o'clock the following 

 (Monday) morning. 



The following list comprises the names of the rarer Coleoptera 

 collected: — Coripera deplanata, Mecodema montana, Athemistus 

 armitagei, Natalia titanus (our first find), Pselaphidse (five 

 species), Brontes (two species), Notonomus (two species). 



Note by Baron von Mueller. — The Cryptostylis found 

 by you in the Dandenong Ranges, dear Mr. French, is the 

 very rare C. leptochila, named by me from a specimen and 

 coloured drawing furnished long ago by Miss L. Atkinson, 

 and described in the "Flora Australiensis," vi., 335 (1873). 

 It was then known only from New South Wales, Bentham 

 recording it from Springwood, in the Blue Mountains, as 

 collected by Richard Cunningham. Miss Atkinson found it 

 not far from that spot. Mr. Fitzgerald, in his superb work 

 on "Australian Orchids," has given an excellent illustration 

 of this singularly local plant, but that shows the labellum 

 light red and the snots thereon not very dark ; while your 

 specimens have the labellum dark purplish, with larger, almost 

 black spots, but this seems a mere variation of colour, 

 unaccompanied by any other characteristics to separate your 

 plant from the typic state ; but it might, under the designa- 

 tion var. frenchiana, be distinguished, which name should be 

 retained, if specific characteristics are discoverable yet. Mr. 

 Fitzgerald procured specimens at Mittagong. As he further 



