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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST, 



Ferns. 



With the exceptions of Trichomanes venosum and Cyathea 

 medullaris all the ferns were found in fruit. 



Trichomanes venosum 

 Hymenophyllum nitens 

 H. javanicum 

 Gleichenia circinata 

 G. flahellata 

 Osmunda barbara 

 Cyathea medullaris 

 Alsophila australis 

 Dicksonia billardiera 

 Davallia dicksonioides 

 D. dubia 

 Lindsaya linearis 

 Adiantum sethiopicum 

 Pteris aquilina 

 P. incisa 

 P. comans 



Mosses and Hepatics 



Pt^cpmnion aciculare 



Meteorum molle 



Porotrichum (Iftot-hecium) spini- 



nervis 

 Cyathophorum pennatum 



Also representatives of the genera Sphagnum, Polytrichum, 

 TrichostomiSm^Campiiylopus, Bartramia, and Tridontium. Some 

 of these were collected in the valley of the Aire River a few 

 weeks previously, during a preliminary visit to the district. 



A. D. Hardy. 



Lomaria discolor 



L. lanceolata 



L. fluviatilis 



L. capensis (var. procera) 



Blechnum cartilagineum 



Asplenium flabellifolium 



A. bulbiferum 



A. flaccidum 



A. umbrosum 



Aspidium aculeatum 



A. capense 



A. decompositum 



A. hispidum 



Polypodium australe 



P. pustulatum 



Bryum bimum 

 Marchantia tabularis 

 Trichocolea to/mentella 

 Podomitrium phyllanthus 

 Dawsonia superba 



BIRD NOTES FROM OLINDA VALE. 

 By C. L. Barrett and E. B. Nicholls. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Cluh of Victoria, 16th January, 1905.) 

 The following are a few field notes in connection with the 

 photographs exhibited here to-night by Mr. C. P. Kinane. The 

 whole series, with one or two exceptions, were taken in the 

 valley of the Olinda Creek, about three miles south-east of 

 Lilydale. Weekly visits were made to the district during the 

 past few months. Forty-nine species of birds were noted (thirty- 

 five nesting), and photographs of the nests, eggs, or young of 

 many of these obtained. Our attention was mainly devoted to a 

 few of the commoner kinds, no attempt being made at a complete 

 record of species, hence the comparative meagreness of our list. 



