Vol. XXVII. 

 1910 



1 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 103 



and dealt with the classification of Victorian birds so readily 

 and thoroughly as to gain him a hearty round of applause at 

 the conclusion of the lecture. Attention was also called to the 

 many unique features of the ornithological fauna of the State, 

 and comparison made with that of other portions of the world. 

 The chairman, Messrs. Barnard, Keartland, Pitcher, St. John, 

 Hardy, Armitage, and M'Caw took part in the discussion which 

 followed, their remarks ranging over considerable ground, and 

 showing that the lecture had secured the interest and sympathy 

 of other members of the Club than those especially devoted to 

 ornithology. Mr. A, W. Milligan, a well-known ornithologist, 

 and a former member of the Club, was present as a visitor, and 

 also spoke. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Growing fern, Botrychium 

 ternatum, collected by the exhibitor over twenty years ago at 

 Oakleigh. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Abnormal growths of "Arum Lily," 

 Richardia africana, and of Snapdragon, Antirrhinum. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Marine shell, Birostra valva, Linn., 

 from Hong Kong. 



By Mr. H. E. Horner. — Quartz crystal from Beenak ; fossil 

 shark's tooth from limestone quarry, Waurn Ponds, near 

 Geelong, with photograph of the locality. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Twig of Eucalyptus vitrea, R. T. 

 Baker {E. vitellina, Naudin), a natural hybrid of E. coviacea x 

 E. amygdalina, collected at Eltham during excursion of 13th 

 August, 1910. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Doves in the City. — A pair of Doves, with more than ordinary 

 courage, have thrown all their traditions to the winds, and have 

 taken up their home in an elm tree at the corner of Swanston 

 and Collins streets, immediately in front of the Town Hall, 

 where they have been busy all last week building a nest. The 

 birds have been intensely and entirely absorbed in their work 

 of nest-making, and it was completed on Sunday, since which 

 time the hen bird has laid and is now sitting upon the eggs, 

 regardless of the heavy rain and the noisy clangour of the trams 

 that cross this busiest intersection in the city. The male bird 

 is constant in his attendance and attentions upon his mate, and 

 they are both so preoccupied with their home duties that they 

 appear to be entirely oblivious of the interminable noises that 

 are created by the busy traffic in the streets around them." — 

 Age, 29th September, 1910. 



