Vol. XXVIII. 



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Excursion to Healesville. 



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the outward journey. Messrs. Barnard, Sutton, Hardy, Kershaw, 

 and Mowling, who remained behind, admit that the best of the 

 flora had been seen. Messrs. Pitcher and M'Gowan returned 

 to town by the evening train, but Mr. Nicholls, whose Hst of 

 birds is appended, stayed the night and Sunday with me. The 

 birds marked * were seen on the trip ; those unmarked were 

 seen or heard from the grounds of my residence. Mount Yule. 

 Of those marked f, only the note was heard at Mount Yule. 



Nankeen Night-Heron 



White-fronted Heron (numerous on Yarra 



flats — seen from train window) 

 Nankeen Kestrel 

 White Cockatoo 

 Rosella 



Laughing Kingfisher 

 Sacred Kingfisher (young in nest) 

 PalUd Cuckoo 

 Fan-tailed Cuckoo 

 Bronze Cuckoo (being pursued by female 



White-throated Thickhead) 

 Welcome Swallow 

 White-shafted Fantail 

 Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike 

 Coachwhip 



Blackbird (introduced) 

 Grass Waibler 

 Brown Tit-W'arbler 

 W^hite-browed Scrub-Wren 

 Superb Warbler (full plumage) 

 Magpie-Lark 

 Grey Shrike-Thrush 

 White-backed Magpie (feeding young) 

 Butcher-bird 



Golden-breasted Whistler 

 Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin 

 White-eye 

 Diamond-bird 

 Crescent Honey-eater 

 White-plumed Honey-eater 

 Wattle-bird (feeding on flowers of torch-lily, 



Tritoma varia) 

 Friar-bird 



Pipit (seen from train) 

 Oriole 



* Nycticorax caledonicus 



* Notophoyx novaj-hoUandiae 



Cerchneis cenchroides... 

 "t Cacatua galerita 

 "■f Platycercus e.ximius ... 

 " Dacelo gigas... 



* Halcyon sanctus 

 *+ Cuculus inornatus 

 ^f Cacomantis rufulus 



* Chalcococcyx plagosus 



Chelidon neoxena 



* Rhipidura albiscapa ... 

 Coracina robusta 



*t Psophodes crepitans ... 



Merula merula 

 t Cisticola exilis 

 Acanthiza pusilla 

 Sericornis frontalis 



* Malurus cyanochlamys 



* Grallina picata 



+ Colluricincla harmonica 

 Gymnorhina leuconota 



* Cracticus destructor 



* Pachycephala pectoralis 

 *+ Eopsaltria australis 



Zosterops ccerulescens 

 I'ardalotus affinis 

 t Meliornis pyrrhoptera... 

 Ptilotis penicillata 

 Anthochsera carunculata 



Tropidorhynchus corniculatis 

 * Anthus australis 

 t Mimetes sagittata 



I am indebted to Messrs Barnard and Kershaw for a few 

 notes on the next day's proceedings, which are as follow : — 



Mr. Barnard says : — " Four of the party had arranged before 

 leaving town to spend the week-end at a boarding-house at the 

 upper end of the valley, and, hearing this on Saturday, another 

 member would not be denied the chance of doing likewise. The 

 party found the crossing-place on Myers Creek an excellent 

 place for young plants of Gleichenia, Osmunda, &c., while 

 young seedlings of the Prostanthera were found in plenty on 

 the hillside above the creek. On Sunday morning, soon after 



