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support of the fact that the mtroduced birds, particularly 

 starlings, dispossessed the native ones of the nesting places they 

 had selected. 



In a further note Mr. St. John mentioned lia\ing seen large 

 numbers of White-l)rowed Wood-Swallows |)assing over South 

 Yarra early on the morning of the I4tli October, 1912. The 

 birds were travelling due north, at no great elevation, and 

 against a strong breeze. They continued to pass rapidly in 

 flocks of fifty or more during the half-hour we had them under 

 observation. 



Mr. C. J. Gabriel mentioned having noted at the Mutton-bird 

 rookery, Port Fairy, as many as fifteen and twenty dead birds 

 at the entrances to the burrows. In his opinion dogs were 

 responsible for this wholesale destruction. 



Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley concurred with this view, and cited 

 an instance in support. 



The President considered some steps should be taken to 

 prevent further depredations by dogs, as the rookery at Port 

 Fairy was the only one on the mainland. 



Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S., stated that during a brief visit to 

 South Gippsland, in November last, he had noted the little 

 green lamellicorn beetle, Diphucephala colaspidoides, Gyll., 

 known as the Cherry-tree Beetle, in such numbers on the native 

 shrubs, Lepfospermum scoparium and Cassinia aculcala, that 

 they soon gave either shrub the api)earance of haN'ing been 

 scorched by fire. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S. — Dried siiccinrens of the following 

 plants, collected on the (irampians. Se])tember, 1912, in illus- 

 tration of his paper : — Bcuicra scsyili flora, F. v; M., Showy 

 Bauera ; Boronia pilosa, Labill., Hairy Boronia ; B. pin)iata. 

 Sm., Pinnate Boronia ; Brachyloma ericoides, Sonder., Broom 

 Heath ; Conospermum Mitchelli, Meiss., Mitchell Conosperm ; 

 Corrca Lawrenciana, Hook., Mountain Correa ; Eucalyptus 

 alpina, Lindl., Grampians Gum ; Grevillea oleoid.is, Sieb., 01i\-e 

 Grevillea ; Helichrysiim Blandowskianum, Steetz., Woolly Ever- 

 lasting ; Hovea longifolia, Robt. Br.. Long-leaved Hovea ; 

 Leptomcria aphylla, R. Br., Small-lea\'ed Sour-bush ; Leiico- 

 Pogon glacialis, Lindl., Twisted-leaved Heath ; L. thyviifolius. 

 Lindl., Thyme-leaved Heath; Phehalium bilohum, Sm., Truncate 

 Phebalium ; Prostanthcra debiles, F. v. M., Weak-leaved Mint 

 Bush ; P. denticrdata, R. Br., Wart-leaved Mint Bush ; 

 Thry)iialiiim Daltoni, F. v, M., Grampian Thrymalium ; Thrypto- 

 mene Miichelliana, F. v. M., Bushy Heath Myrtle ; Pscudau- 

 fhiis ovalif alius. Oval Pseudanthus ; Pulkncea rosea, F. v. M., 

 Rosy Bush Pea; Cladonia retipora, K. (Lichen); sandstone 



