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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Pied Oyster-catcher 



Lesser Golden Plover 



Red-capped Dottrel 



Barred-rumped Godwit 



Curlew ... 



Little Stint 



Sharp-tailed Stint ... 



Curlew Stint 



Knot 



White-faced Ternlet 



Crested Tern 



Silver Gull 



Pacific Gull 



Richardson's Skua 



White-faced Storm Petrel 



White-fronted Heron 



Pelican ... 



Black Cormorant ... 



Pied Cormorant ... 



Hoary-headed Grebe 



Black Swan 



Musk Duck 



Sparrow (introduced) 



Hrematopus longirostris 

 Charadrius dominicus 

 ^gialitis ruficapilla 

 Liraosa novse-zealandioe 

 Numenius cyanopus 

 Limonites ruficollis 

 Heteropygia acuminata 

 Ancylochilus subarquatus 

 Tringa canutus 

 Sterna nereis 

 Sterna bergii 

 Larus novse-hollandiae 

 Gabianus pacificus 

 Stercorarius crepidatus 

 Pelagodroma marina 

 Notophoyx novse-hollandiae 

 Pelicanus conspicillatus 

 Phalacrocorax carbo 

 P. hypoleucus 

 Podicipes poliocephalus 

 Chenopis atrata 

 Biziura lobata 

 Passer domesticus 



NOTES ON THE LARV^ AND PUP^: OF BIRCHIP 

 HETEROCERA. 



Part IH. 

 By D. Goudie. 

 {Read he/ore the Field Naturalists^ Club of Victoria, 9th March, 1903.) 

 Hyleora dilucida, Felder. — The larvge of this moth are capable 

 of doing considerable damage to the various species of eucalyptus, 

 especially the Sugar Gum, Eucalyptus corynocalyx, which is grown 

 for shelter. They are liable to be passed over on account of 

 their resemblance to the leaves, but a careful search amongst the 

 half-bared twigs is generally sufficient to unearth the culprit. In 

 August and September, igoi, I procured a fair number of these 

 larvae — the first, which fed ravenously, and attained a large size, 

 entering the earth I had provided on 25th September, the change 

 into the pupal stage taking place ten days later. The last of the 

 caterpillars, of which I had over thirty, pupated on 28th October. 

 The first emerged on 14th March, 1902, and the last on 21st 

 April. 



The full-grown larva is nearly three inches in length, of a 

 bluish-green colour, rather square-shaped on the back, with a 

 whitish, serrated, sub-dorsal ridge. There are two large spots on 



