1 82 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. [^'''fcI^^'' 



R. H. St. John during their recent visit to the National Park, 

 Wilson's Promontory, on behalf of the National Herbarium, 

 and made a number of interesting remarks on the habitats of 

 the various plants found, a list of which was given in Professor 

 Ewart's report in the January Naturalist. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Growing Victorian fern, Poly- 

 podium serpens. 



By Mr. C. F. Cole. — Series of bird-skins from Mallee, Victoria, 

 viz. : — Black-eared Cuckoo, Mesocaliits palliolatus. Lath. ; Gil- 

 bert's Thickhead, Pachycephala gilberti, Gld. ; Scrub-Robin, 

 Drymaoedus hrunneipygius, Gld. ; Lesser Brown Flycatcher, 

 Micrceca assimilis, Gld. ; Striated Grass-Wren, Amytis striata, 

 Gld. ; Purple-backed Wren, Malurits assimilis. North ; Black- 

 backed Wren, M. mekinonotus, Gld.; Mallee Emu- Wren, Stipitiirits 

 mallee, Camp, (new to science) ; Red-rumped Ground- Wren, 

 Hylacola caiita, Gld. ; White-fronted Honey-eater, Glycyphila 

 alhifrons, Gld. ; and Striped Honey- eater, Plectorhamphus 

 lanceolatus, Gld. 



By Mrs. A. D. Hardy. — Young of Grass-Parrot, Psephotus 

 hcematonotus, three days old. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Freshwater alga, BulhochcBte 

 Brebissonii, Kutz, collected at Willsmere, 1904 (new record for 

 Australia) ; pollen grains of Eucalyptus elcsophora, F. v. M., taken 

 from collecting basket of common bee. Apis mellifica ; pot-grown 

 plant of Lomatia longifolia, collected at West Warburton as an 

 inch-high seedling. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., for National Museum. — Elvers 

 (young eels), from Hopkins Falls, near Warrnambool, and 

 photographs in illustration of paper ; Gippsland Emperor Moth, 

 Anther caa helena, and living larvae of same ; small colony of 

 ants, Amblyophone, sp., taken at Ferntree Gully by Mr. F. Spry. 



By Mr. G. Lyell. — Dried specimens of orchid, Caleya minor, 

 from Pyrete Ranges, near Gisborne, collected in January. 



By Mr. D. J. Mahony, B.Sc. — Mineralogical specimens, in- 

 cluding Selwynite, from Heathcote ; olivine crystals, from 

 scoria pits near Terang ; barytas, from near Gellibrand River ; 

 chloropal, from Mt. William ; corundum, from Mt. Wellington ; 

 and carbonate of bismuth (with quartz), from Bonang, all 

 Victorian localities. Mica schist, with sapphires, from Mt. 

 Painter, South Australia ; auriferous quartz, from Bullfinch, 

 Western Australia ; and amblyonite, a fluophosphate of alu- 

 minum and lithium, from near Coolgardie, Western Australia 

 (when found last year, first record for Australia). 



By Mr. W. H. A. Roger. — Specimens of the " blue " butterfly, 

 Miletus delicia, from chrysalides taken at Warburton on Christ- 

 mas Day. 



