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bedrock. On the hill a short distance further north, where 

 the road enters the liead of the northward valley, there occur 

 E. polyanihcmos. Red Box. and E. sideroxylon. Red Ironbark. 

 A verj' few Ironbarks arc just on the southward slope. The 

 other trees here present arc the Boxes — Grey. Yellow, and Long- 

 leaved — Broad-leaved Peppermint and Yellow Gum, and E. 

 Consideniana, Yertcluik, and prolialily E. macrorrhyncha. Red 

 Stringybark. Messmate is not common, but pro])ably occurs. 

 E. Consideniana occurs close to the road on the east side, near 

 the top of the hill ; at 300 paces eastward along the ridge it is 

 present in quantity. This is a dry situation, and with it are 

 Red Box, Red Ironbark, Long-leaved Box, and Broad-leaved 

 Peppermint, and some Golden Wattles and Cherry Ballart. 

 E. Consideniana extends a little down the south slope, and was 

 also noticed on a hill to the north, though on the very highest 

 and driest part of this hill Red Box and Red Ironbark were 

 the chief trees. 



{To be continued.) 



Our Honour Roll. — The month of August was fatal to two 

 of those sons of members whose names appear in the Honour 

 Roll published in the April Naturalist. Both died while serving 

 King and country in France, or perhaps Flanders, particulars 

 not yet being to hand. (3n Oth August ("aj^tain Frank E. Gatliff, 

 54th Field Artillery, third son Mr. J. H. (xatliff, made the 

 supreme sarrificf, and on nth August Lieut. Norman F. W. 

 Barnard,. 1st Pioneer Battalion, only son of .Air. F. (i. A. Barnard, 

 was reported killed in action. Both were ])romising young men, 

 whose lives could ill be spared in the present crisis, and we 

 extend our readers' sympathies to their sorrowing parents. 



Flying-Fishes. — Our fellow-member. Private C. L. Barrett, 

 of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance, A.I.F., writes: — "At 

 Sea. 26th May, 1917. — From the dvck of our boat I have just 

 been watching some flying-fishes, and I thought tb.at a note 

 might be of some interest to members of the F.N.C. Some 

 observers have declared that these fishes vibrate their large 

 pectoral fins when skimming through tlie air — in fact, that they 

 use them as wings. My observations to-day. and on a ]-)revious 

 occasion when I was voyaging in the Pacific Ocean, convince 

 me that the lins are held rigirl all the time that tlu- fish is in the 

 air. However, I did see one to-day strike the water with its 

 tail ; it did not rise cleanly and rapidly in the first place, and 

 the flip of the tail gave it tlie necessary impetus for the fli'^hf. 

 Another fish I observed ma('.e an aerial journey of at least fifty 

 yards. The flying-fish(;s have been of special interest to mc, as 

 we have seen no other form of animal life for some days." 



