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EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Wild flowers from South Wandin, 

 including Grevillea alpina, Persoonia jiiniperina, and Lomatia 

 ilicijolia ; young fry of fish, probably Galaxias, from Yarra River 

 at Kew. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. • — Rare Victorian bird, Hylacola 

 pyrrhopijgia, collected by Mr. G. E. Shepherd and himself in the 

 Dandenong Ranges (new locality) ; rare Victorian orchid, Caleya 

 sullifmii, collected near Gisborne by Mr. G. Lyell, January, 

 1906. Only previously found at the Grampians. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Shells, Sunetta excatata, Hanley, 

 Dosinia crocea, Desh., Glycimeris australis, Quoy and Gaimard, 

 and G. flabellalus, 1'. Wds. 



By Mr. A. D'. Hardy, F.L.S., and Mrs. Hardy. — Dried 

 specimens of various Acacias from the Blacks' Spur ; also 

 photographs, taken by Messrs, Lindt and Caire, of the Fernshawe 

 district. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — White-flowered Fringed Lily, Thysanotus 

 tube7-osus, var. alba, collected near Emerald, 31/12/05. 



By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Dried plants from the Mallee, in 

 illustration of paper. 



By Mr. C. Walter. — Plant, Mitrasacme pilosa, collected by 

 Mr. C. French, jun., in the Dandenong Ranges. Only previously 

 recorded from the Grampians 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



A TRAMP FROM HEALESVILLE TO BUXTON. 



BOTANICAL AND ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER. 



Bv A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., and Mrs. Hardy. 

 (Bead be/ore the Field Naturalists^ Cluh of Victoria, loth Jan., 1906.) 



Towards the end of September last year (1905) we crossed that 

 part of the Dividing Range known as the Blacks' Spur. Our 

 starling point was Healesville, situated at the junction of the Yarra 

 and Watts Rivers, 38 miles from town, and our pace was a 

 leisurely one, as befits the nature student, on foot, by a route 

 which passed through Fernshaw and Narbethong to Marysville, 

 and on horses to Bu.\ton, which lies in the Acheron Valley, eight 

 miles northerly from Marysville, on the road to Alexandra. The 

 distance by road from Healesville to Buxton is, roughly, about 

 30 miles. It will be seen by those who know something of the 

 locality that we had a well-formed road all the way, to which we 

 kept, except for the hundred and one small deviations in search 

 of bird or plant life — deviations which added to the length and 

 interest of the journey. 



The object of our paper is to tell something of a district which 



