146 Field Natutalists' Club — Proceedings. \yo\'^\^xn\. 



Ouyen and Murrayville during the last week of December. 

 Usually these plants would have long passed their flowering 

 season, but the abnormal quantity of rain which fell in the 

 district in November and December had greatly prolonged 

 their flowering period. 



Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S., called attention to two birds recently 

 obtained at Mallacoota Inlet — viz., a female Flinders Cuckoo (a 

 Queensland bird), which had strayed far from its usual limits, 

 and so far as he knew had not been previously recorded for 

 Victoria, and the Topknot Pigeon (a fruit-eating pigeon), ranging 

 from Queensland to Tasmania, but comparatively rare in 

 southern latitudes. 



Dr. C. S. Sutton called attention to dried specimens of 

 Eriostemon obovalis and Grevillea parviflora, collected by Mr. 

 St. John and himself in the Geelong Water Reserve. Durdid- 

 warrah, at Christmas, being a new district for each of these 

 plants. 



Mr. P. R. H. St. John called attention to herbarium speci- 

 mens exhibited of Acacia leprosa, Sieber, .4. leprosa, var. tenui- 

 folia, Benth., and A. siibporosa, F. v. M., about which con- 

 siderable confusion existed, and pointed out how they might 

 be distinguished. 



Mr. F. Wisewould remarked that the young Black-tailed 

 Wallaby exhibited had been taken from the pouch on 31st 

 December, two months after the close season terminated. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., called attention to his exhibit of 

 a sp3cimen of Glycevia dives, F. v. M., Giant Mountain Grass, 

 14 feet high, from Sherbrooke, Dandenong Ranges. He said 

 this was uot an exceptional growth, as himdreds of specimens 

 equally tall were to be seen there this season. 



PAPER READ. 



By Mr. J. Searle, entitled "The Pond and its Inhabitants." 

 The author said that some time ago it had been proposed 

 to publish a series of articles of a more elementary nature in 

 the Naturalist, and with that view he had prepared a series of 

 notes on pond-life, some of which he purposed bringing before 

 the meeting. He then dealt with methods of investigation, 

 aquatic insects, the whirhgig l)eetles, moss animals (fresh- 

 water polyzoa), and water-fleas, illustrating his remarks with 

 blackboard sketches. 



Some discussion ensued, in which IMessrs. Hardy, Williamson, 

 Sutton, Plumridge, and the chairman took part. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Miss G. Nethercote mentioned that when on a recent visit 

 to the Buchan Caves district she had noticed the New South 



