way to the top of tall trees to observe our feathered friends in the 

 act of nidification, while camera men took pictures of the young 

 and eggs in what seemed inaccessible places- to the uninitiated in 

 such work. 



— Interesting Observations. — 



Those who had the pleasure of seeing that world-renowned 

 Nature photographer, Mr. A. E. H. Matingley, C.M.Z.S., at work 

 will never forget it. He straps on the climbing irons and scales 

 the bare smooth trunk of a huge eucalypt of over 100 ft. without 

 a branch. Then he hauls up his valuable camera by means of a 

 line, and perched in a most dangerous position on some decayed 

 limb, takes pictures of the young birds and their nests. The 

 botanists went forth loaded up, for on their backs they carried 

 bulky packs of paper in frames, in which to press their specimens. 

 The entomologist took his bottles, jars, and chip boxes, and also 

 a large umbrella, into wliicli he shakes the leafy-covered branches 

 of trees and shnibs in search of minute insects which are con- 

 cealed among the leaves and stems of overhaging branches; but 

 as soon as the branch is touched, these insects let go their hold and 

 drop in a lifeless fashion to tlie long grass beneath. The ento- 

 mologist guards against tliis by intercepting the fall with the up- 

 turned extended umbrella. TJie bright-flowering shrubs are 

 searched for the gorgeous beetles that belong to the Buprestide, or 

 Setonicidae family, and exist upon the sweet nectar abstracted 

 from the wild flowers. Bark is carefully removed from the trunks 

 ot trees in search of insects of more sombre colouring, and dead 

 logs and stones are overturned in quest of beetles, spiders, and 

 land shells. Last, but not least, the geologist thrusts his short- 

 handled miner's pick into his belt, straps on a strong canvas bag 

 to his shoulders, in which to carry back to camp fragments of 

 rock and stones which may be of special interest; and vrith 

 hammer in hand he is soon at work among the relices of bygone 

 ages. The tapping of his hammer grows fainter in the distance 

 as the prospector works his way over the range or up some rocky 

 ravine. So, radiating from the camp to all points of the compass, 

 small parties of two and three go out, and the camp would be 

 desserted but for the cook— an important individual in any camp; 

 for, in spite of the .-idvance of science, the scientist requires his 

 three square meals a day as well as anyone else does, especially 

 after a 15 or 20 mile tramp. 



— Startled Birds and Animals. — 



The harsh cry of the parrots is heard among the brushwood; 

 the birds have been disturbed, most likely by some one from their 

 morning meal amid the beri-y-laden bushes or seedy grasses; or, 

 it may be, the brush-tongued lorkeets have been frightened from 



