Che Uiciorian naturalist 



Vol. XXXIII.— No. 2. JUNE 8, 1916. No. 390. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday, 8th May, 1916. 



In the absence of the president, one of the vice-presidents 

 (Mr. F. Pitcher) occupied the chair, and about 40 members 

 and visitors were present. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken. Miss Ethel M'Lennan, B.Sc, 

 19 Manningtree-road, Hawthorn, Mr. William R. Jamieson, 

 B.Sc, 41 Charles-street, Kew, and Mr. Percy Sharman, B.Sc, 

 Training College, University, were duly elected as ordinary 

 members, and Mr. James Hay Young. Meredith, as a country 

 member. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Messrs. J. Stickland and J. Wilcox were elected to audit the 

 accounts of the Club for the year 1915-16, and nominations 

 for office-bearers for the year 1916-17 were made. 



REMARKS ON EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. L. Scott said that the Naturalist for January, 1915, 

 contained a description and illustration of a rocking stone at 

 North Narre Warren, and at the time the editor asked for 

 information respecting similar stones in Victoria. He was 

 exhibiting a photograph of a stone on the Buffalo plateau, 

 near a striking monohth known both as '' The Sentinel " and 

 as '' The Piano." The stone might be regarded as a pedal. 

 It measures approximately 14 feet by 9 feet by 2J feet, and a 

 vibration of 2^ inches is readily obtainable. An attempt to 

 increase the swing caused such growling that the effort was 

 abandoned. The Narre Warren stone is 13 feet by 4J feet by 

 3i feet, with a movement of about 3 inches. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. P. R. H. St. John stated that nestlings of the Brush 

 Wattle-bird, Acanthochcera mellivora, were to be seen in the 

 Botanic Gardens at present. In his lengthy experience of the 

 avifauna of the Gardens so late a brood was unprecedented. 



Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue said that the manager of the Kulkyne 

 Station, in a recent letter to him, mentioned that thousands of 

 cormorants of several species were nesting at the present time 

 in the Mournpoul sanctuary. In this particular locality these 

 birds were not hitherto known to breed so late in the season. 



