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visited many parts of Australia for the purpose of making observa- 

 tions on the spot. In 1882, at the request of the South AustraHan 

 Government, he reported on the mineralogy and botany of the 

 Northern Territory, and in 1894 was a member of the Horn 

 Expedition to the Macdonnell Ranges, Central Australia, on 

 which occasion he took charge of the palaeontology and botany. 

 As one of the founders of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal 

 Society of South Australia he did much to popularize the natural 

 history of that colony, and nothing pleased him better than to lead 

 one of its outings among the hills and valleys of the Mt. Lofty 

 Ranges. As an author he first came under notice by the well- 

 known appendix, " Recently Discovered Shells, Living and Fossil," 

 which was added to the later editions of Woodward's " Manual of 

 the Mollusca ; " while an admirable "Handbook of the Flora of 

 Extra-Tropical South Australia " bears testimony to his botanical 

 knowledge. As showing his varied tastes, for many years he took 

 great interest in a farm in the Nairne district, and more recently 

 became an orchardist near Salisbury, where he had a fine orangery, 

 managed by one of his sons. Finally, we may with safety assert 

 that his place as an all-round naturalist, thoroughly conversant 

 with the flora and fauna, living or extinct, of his adopted land, will 

 probably long remain unfilled. 



ALTERATION OF SPECIFIC NAME OF ^EGOTHELES 

 RUFESCENS, HALL. 

 By Robert Hall. 

 At the June meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club I described, 

 under the name of ^Egotheles riifescens, a new Owlet Nightjar 

 from North-West Australia {Vict. Nat, vol. xviii., p. 60). Mr. 

 A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., Ornithologist, Australian Museum, has 

 informed me that some time before Count Salvadori used, in the 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 2nd series, vol. xvi., p. 71 (1896), the 

 same specific name for a Nightjar from the Owen Stanley Ranges, 

 New Guinea. It is therefore necessary to bestow another specific 

 name upon the N.W. Australian bird, and I desire the name 

 jEgotheles riifa to take the place of ^. rufescens. 



A TRIP TO THE MALLEE AND THE GRAMPIANS. 



{Concluded fvotn page 84,) 

 By D. Best. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, llth March, 190L) 

 On arrival at Dimboola we spent the afternoon in looking round 

 the township and in visiting Mr. St. E. D'Alton, who promised to 

 show us likely spots for collecting. Accordingly we made an 

 early start, and down by the Wimmera River, in sandy ground, 



