112 THE VICXUIilAN NATCUAtlST. 



Wliite-tliroated Thickhead, Frontal Shrike-Tit, Rufous-fronted and 

 shining Flycatchers, the Coach-whip Bird, Emu Wren, Spotted 

 Ground Thrush, Mountain Thrush, New South Wales Oriole, 

 Wartj'-faced and Spine-billed Honey-eaters, White-throated Tree 

 Creeper, Fantailed and Bronze Cuckoos, Chestnut-shouldered Grass 

 Parrakeet, Southern Stone Plover, and ]SFa)dveen Night Heron. 



Beptiles: — Black Snake {^Bseudechys porphyriacus), and Lace 

 Lizard {^Hydrosaurus varius). 



Plants: — Comparatiyely few Dicotytedons. Orchids — 12 species? 

 including Gastroaia sesatnoides , Caltchilus camptstri s, PterosiijUs 

 cuGulluUi, var., Ghiloglotlis Qunni i, var., &c. Ferns— 15 species. 



As tliis was the first " camp out" of the Club, perhaps the names 

 of those who took part in it may be interesting to some of our 

 readers. The following were those that camped out — Messrs. A. 

 Borthwick, W. A. Butters, N. J. Caire, A. J.Campbell, G. Coghill, 

 E. Cornwall, J. E. Dixon, J. T. Gillespie, S. Hales, W. Hatton, 

 A. W. Milligan, G. Savage, and three friends, whilst Messrs. F. 

 G. A. Barnard, C. French, Junr., T. Lucas, Junr., J. E. Prince, 

 G. Rose, 0. A. Sayce, E. Symonds, with several friends, joined on 

 the Monday. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB EXCURSION TO 



FRANKSTON. 



By Messes. C. French and D. Best. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, August, 188-1) 



{Continued from last month.) 



Crossing the country which is here very picturesque, we suddenly 

 came upon a creek, whose banks were very steep, which near the 

 bottom was covered with the common though beautiful Maiden-hair 

 Fern, Adiantum cethiopicum , near which were also found several 

 species of Mosses, and a solitary patch of a species of Junqermannia^ 

 specimens of which, with its singular crozier-shape fruit, were 

 collected, and in the meanwhile one of our party who has a well- 

 known penchant for Algfe, &c., found some chara,, and "bottled up" 

 some repulsive looking aquatic material for future reference, 

 including Dasyactis species, Hydrianwn heteromorphmn , Conferva 

 species, also growing on decaying vegetation, Fleurococcus 

 commum^ These are species not hitherto collected in any other 

 locality. A large number of Desmids and other algte w ere collected, 

 but as they did not present any new features, are not mentioned. 

 This creek, the bottom of which is strewn with granite boulders and 

 studded with mica amongst the loose fragments, formerly bore the 



