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taining small shells and Foraminifera, would probably have been 

 dried and blown off before this. The rock-pools here siill 

 uncovered contained several of the usual seaweeds and corallines. 

 These on closer examination yielded a perfect harvest of 

 Copepoda, not yet determined, as well as the Sea Centipede, 

 Nereis. Samples of the water from the pools contained numerous 

 ciliated infusorians and several kinds of diatoms. Some dredging 

 in the pools resulted in the capture of several living Ostracoda of 

 the genus Xestoleberis, and a* single valve of a very interesting 

 ostracod, Cytherella j}U7ictala, G. S. Brady, was found in the 

 sediment of a lubeful of water. This latter form, although widely 

 distributed in Europe and the Pacific, is new to Victorian shores, 

 it having been found previously in Australian waters in Port 

 Jackson by the Challenger, and off the Great Barrier Reef by the 

 Gazelle. Only a single specimen of a foraminifer fell to our net, 

 namely, Polystomella crisjja, and this was dead and rather the 

 worse for wear. The shell beach towards Ricketts Point was 

 next searched for shells, but as the tide was nearly full the only 

 perfect shells obtained were Vemis (Chione) strigosa and Tellina 

 decussata. The incoming tide had washed up, in one place, a 

 (quantity of brown, frothy material. Of this we took samples for 

 home examination under the microscope. We found it to be very 

 rich in living Diatomacese, including the following forms : — 

 Bacillaria, sp., Grammatophora Duirina, GyrosiyiiKi, sp., Licmo- 

 phora, sp., Nitzschia longissima and another species, Podosphenia, 

 sp,, Rhabdoneoia, sp., ISynedra, sp., and iStauroneis, sp. Re- 

 assembling for the return to town, we met the youthful members 

 of the party, who had organized a little trip of their own to the 

 cliffs to study fossilized marine zoology, and this had resulted in 

 their securing cetacean bones, fish teeth, and a fair collection of 

 tertiary shells. — F. ChapiMan. 



AT PHILLIP ISLAND, WESTERN PORT. 

 (with lantern illustrations.) 

 By A. J. Campbell. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, ICM Xor., 1903.) 

 Phillip Island and Mutton-birds are almost synonymous terms, 

 hence my remarks will deal almost entirely with that section of 

 the bird-life of the Island. 



The pictures I shall have pleasure in showing you this evening 

 are the results of three trips — two in the spring and one in the 

 autumn — to Phillip Island. For the sake of convenience they 

 may be divided geographically into three groups or sets — 

 (i) The neighbouriiood of Cape Wollomai, at the eastern end; 

 (2) the site of the 1902 Ornithologists' Camp on the Back Beach 



