Vol. XXVIII. 



1912 



J Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 203 



to the edge of the nest and then fell on to the ground, when 

 they were replaced by the householder. After being thus 

 replaced two or three times it was noticed that the old birds, 

 when they saw the young ones on the edge of the nest, flew 

 against them and knocked them back into the nest, thus saving 

 them from falling on the ground. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Copies of tourist maps of 

 Grampians and Healesville districts. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Under microscope, mounted specimens of 

 Copepoda — viz., Boeckella robusta, B. oblonga, B. minuta, B. 

 symmetrica, B. rubra, B. insignis, B. nyoraensis, B. saycei, and 

 B. pseiidochelce ; also BriiiieUa tasmanica, B. anstralis, B. 

 viridis, B. ampulla, and B. longesetosa, and other species. 



By Master W. Searle. — Larvae of Procession Moth, Teara, sp. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Dried specimens, in flower and 

 fruit, of Calliiris propinqua, R. Br., N.O. Coniferae, collected 

 at Werribee Gorge, 29th January, 191 2, not previously recorded 

 for Victoria ; Atriplex sHpitahim, Bentham, N.O. Cheno- 

 podiaceae, same locality and date, not previously recorded for 

 south of Victoria ; also Ranunculus aqnatilis, Linn. 



By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Dried specimens, photographs, &c., 

 in illustration of paper by Mr. G. Weindorfer. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO WARBURTON. 



The main object of this excursion being the ascent of the 

 newly opened up Mount Donna Buang, and the railway time- 

 table not allowing sufficient time for that to be accomplished 

 in the interval between the arrival and departure of the daily 

 trains, it was necessary to take the evening train to Warburton 

 on Friday, 15th December. Our party consisted of seven 

 members and friends, to several of whom the adjacent country 

 \vas already familiar. The Friday was rather warm and close, 

 with every ap]x^arance of a thunderstorm, but we reached 

 Warburton (48 miles) about 8.45 p.m., before the threatened 

 change. However, during the night we were awakened by 

 thunder, presently followed by rain. Some were up early to 

 reconnoitre and discuss the weather. A three-mile walk before 

 breakfast up the Yarra valley served to show that since the 

 last Club excursion to these parts civilization had made great 

 inroads on the primitive bush, though, as a compensation, 

 the numerous timber tramways enable one to penetrate to 

 considerable distances into the forest with less trouble than 

 formerly. After breakfast, just as we were setting out, a 

 smart shower of fine rain came up from the south-west. and. 



