August, 1907.] 



THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



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Red-backed Farrakcel 

 Brown Quail 

 Pectoral Rail 

 Black Moor- Hen 

 Blue Bald -Coot ... 

 Coot 



Southern Stone- Flover 

 Spur- winged Plover 

 Black-fronted Dottrel 

 White Ibis 

 Straw- necked Ibi.s 

 Yellow-bellied Spoonbill ... 

 While Egret 

 White-fronted Heron 

 White-necked Heron 

 Night Heron 

 Bittern 



Black Cormorant 

 Little Black Cormorant 

 White- breasted Cormorant 

 Little Cormorant 

 Darter ... 

 Pelican 



Black-throated Grebe 

 Tippet Grebe 

 Black Swan 

 Black Duck 

 Teal ... 



White-eyetl Duck (Widgeon) 

 Musk Duck 



Psephotus hsematonotus, Gld. 

 Synoecus australis, Tenim. 

 Hypotaenidia philippinensis, Linn. 

 Cjallinula tenebrosa, Gld. 

 Porphyrio bellus, Gld. 

 Fulica australis, Gld. 

 Burhinus grallarius, Latli. 

 Lobivanellus lobatus, Lath, 

 /k.gialitis melanops, \ieill. 

 Ibis molucca, Cuv. 

 Carphibis spinicollis, Jam. 

 Platibis flavipes, Gld. 

 Ilerodias timoriensis, Less. 

 Notophoyx novse-holiandiae 

 N. pacitica, Lath. 

 Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmel. 

 Botaurus pcecdoptilus, Wagl. 

 Piialacrocora.x carbo, Linn. 

 P. sulcirostris, Brandt 

 P. gouldi, Salvd. 

 P. melanoleucus, Vieill. 

 Plotus novae-hollandiae, GKI. 

 Pelecanus conspicillatus, Temm. 

 Podiceps novae-hollandije, Stepli. 

 P. cristatus, Linn. 

 Chenopis atrata, Lath. 

 Anas superciliosa, Gmel. 

 Netiion castaneum, Eyton 

 Nyroca australis, Gld. 

 Bi/.iura lobata, Shaw. 



Mosses. — A brief paper on this despised division of plant-life, 

 from the pen of Mr. R. A. Bastow, appears in the Victorian 

 School Paper for Classes V. and VL for this niontli (August). It 

 includes figures of several species, and we hope will arouse some 

 interest in these lowly plants. 



Western Ausjralia. — The latest maps of this State show a 

 "Native Fauna and Flora Reserve." It is a block about fifteen 

 miles by twenty, containing some 160,000 acres, situated in the 

 Darling Range, due east of Pinjarra, on the Bunbury railway, 

 about 66 miles south of Perth. 



" Records of the Cantekuurv (N.Z.) Museum." — The first 

 part of a new publication under the above title is to hand, and is 

 devoted to a " Basic List of the Fishes of New Zealand," by Mr. 

 P^dgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Curator of the Museum. The list is 

 founded on the late Capt. Hutton's " Catalogue of the Fishes of 

 New Zealand," but with additions and alterations according to the 

 latest literature. The full reference is given to the description of 

 each of the 252 species listed, but the arrangement differs con- 

 siderably from that adopted by Mr. D. G. Stead for his " Fishes 

 of Australia," recently published. 



