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strong current carries them against trees, and there is trouble for 

 a time. But with encouraging shouts they at last get over in 

 safety, after a little anxiety on our part. We find the timber on 

 the opposite bank is full of birds, Magpies, Butcher Birds, Friar 

 Birds, and others vying with each other to produce joyous music. 

 We were now in our element, but, as the water was rising fast, 

 were hurried away, much to our regret. After ploughing through 

 some boggy places and a few rather deep water splashes, we got 

 on to a good road. Here we met with a slight mishap to our 

 buggy, but fencing wire is again handy and the damage soon 

 repaired. On a plain in the distance we notice a pretty clump 

 of trees, whose golden-green foliage, hanging pendent, claims our 

 admiration, and we stop to take our last picture in Riverina — 

 " Under the Myalls." Deniliquin is reached in time to catch the 

 train for Melbourne, where we part well satisfied with our ex- 

 periences of Riverina during full flood. 



The following were the principal birds seen during the trip : — 

 Black-breasted Buzzard, White-rumped Wood Swallow (just 

 arrived), Black-throated Butcher Bird (probably its most 

 southern range), Ground Graucalus, Western Gerygone (G. 

 culicivora), Hooded Robin, White-winged Wren (Malurus), 

 Xerophila, Rufus-tinted Skylark (just arrived), Spotted Bower 

 Bird, Grey Struthidea, Chestnut-crowned Pomatostomus, Lanceo- 

 late Honey-Eater, Yellow-rumped Parrakeet, Crested Bronzewing 

 Pigeon, Emu, Native Companion, White Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, 

 Pacific Heron, Bittern, Coot, Swan, Ducks (4 species), Crested 

 Grebe. 



NOTES ON THE SO-CALLED MIOCENE DEPOSITS OF 

 BACCHUS MARSH. 



By C. C. Brittlebank. 

 (Bead before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 13th Jidy, 1896.) 



In the Bacchus Marsh district, but principally to the west and 

 north-west, there are extensive deposits of clay, sand, gravel, 

 ferruginous and argillaceous sandstones and quartz conglomerate, 

 the latter being cemented by silica and ferruginous matter. 



The officers of the geological survey of Victoria have mapped 

 portions of the above beds under the term Miocene, but in the 

 light of later evidence this is probably incorrect. The writer 

 applies the term Miocene to those beds described by the geologists 

 of the survey under that name. 



The area under notice covers about 100 square miles, fifty of 

 which are beyond the limits of the survey. In the above area 

 the various exposed formations are Post Pliocene, Newer Pliocene, 

 Newer Basalt, Older Basalt, Miocene, Glacial Drift, Lower 

 Silurian, Granite. 



At one period nearly the whole of the district lying between 



