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These were pictured in the Leader of 19th April. There are 

 also some very interesting cuttings through Ordovician forma- 

 tions in which the strata are particularly well marked. The 

 tourist also has the chance of travelling from Nayook up the 

 Latrobe to Powelltown, about 16 miles, whence a steam tram, 

 ten miles in length, connects with the railway at Yarra Junction. 

 A small party of members of the F.N.C. visited the district 

 at Easter, and were very pleased with their outing. Nice 

 falls, or cascades, occur on tributaries of both the Loch and 

 the Toorongo, and can be reached with a little exertion ; but 

 without leaving the road tree-ferns, beeches, and giant black- 

 butts, with all their attendant undergrowth, in endless pro- 

 fusion, can be seen, almost untouched by the hand of man. 



The Green Mountains : Queensland's National Park. — 

 Under this heading, Mr. A. H. Chisholm, in the Sydney Mail 

 for 5th March last, gives an interesting description, illustrated 

 with characteristic scenes, of Queensland's National Park, an 

 area of 47,000 acres, situated in the Macpherson Range, which 

 is practically the boundary between New South Wales and 

 Queensland. The fact of the reservation is largely due to the 

 perseverance and energy of a young resident of the district, 

 Lieut. W. R. Lahey, who, while studying at the Sydney 

 University, spent all his vacations in unravelling the intricacies 

 of the mountains. The vegetation is superb, and, as an 

 elevation of 4,000 feet is attained in some places, there should 

 be considerable variety in it. The Brisbane Field Naturalists' 

 Club spent a week there during the recent summer, but, as 

 little has yet been done to open up the area, they found the 

 difficulties of investigation rather severe. The Park is distant 

 from Brisbane about 70 miles, and from one of its highest points 

 Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Island can easily be made out. 

 Among the trees to be seen there are venerable specimens of 

 the Antarctic Beech, Fagiis Mooreii, cedars, pines, and flame- 

 trees, while the Queensland Waratah, Emhothrium Wickhauii 

 (var. pinnata), has recently been recorded for the area. The 

 birds are numerous, and in several instances almost unique. 

 Lyre-birds, Mountain Thrushes, Black-faced Flycatchers, Scrub- 

 Wrens, Pigeons, Parrots of many sizes and colours. Eagles, 

 Cat-birds, Bell-Miners, Dragoon-birds, Rose-breasted Robins, 

 are among those noted, while that rare bird, the Rufous Scrub- 

 bird, AtYichornis rufescens, has also been seen there. Though 

 the male of this bird was described by the late Dr. E. P. 

 Ramsay so long ago as 1865, and the nest and eggs were first 

 discovered by Mr. S..W. Jackson on the Bellinger River in 

 1898, the female bird has not yet been taken. The bird is a 

 wonderful mimic, and in its attitudes greatly resembles the 

 Lyre-bird. 



