198 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST, 



and had been very favourably received, and there was every 

 probability that the greater part of the peninsula would be 

 reserved. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. W. Errington, Rev. A, F. 

 Hagenauer, Mr. James Kershaw, and Mr. Walter Poole were 

 duly elected members of the Club. 



Mr. F. G. A. Barnard mentioned the danger likely to ensue on 

 the introduction of chicken cholera into the colony, and moved 

 — "That the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria views with 

 alarm the proposed introduction of chicken cholera into 

 Australia as a means of destroying rabbits, believing that such 

 an introduction cannot be confined to rabbits alone, and will 

 lead to the extermination of native and domesticated animals 

 and birds, and trusts that the Governments of the Australian 

 colonies will not allow the proposed introduction without 

 extended experiments under competent persons." The resolu- 

 tion was seconded by Mr. J. E. Prince, and carried unanimously, 

 and ordered to be forwarded to the Chief Secretary. 



PAPER READ. 



The hon. secretary read a paper by Mr. R. H. Nancarrow, 

 entitled " Notes on the Nidification of Acanthiza uropygialis" 

 in which he gave some interesting particulars as to the finding 

 of nests of this little bird in various positions in the Whipstick 

 scrub, near Neilborough, and exhibited a nest built in a tubular 

 piece of bark, together with an &%g. 



Mr. H. Watts made some remarks in explanation of his notes 

 on animal parasites, read at the last meeting, and also related 

 his experiences in reducing the number of vine moths, Agorista 

 glycine, and their larvae, in his garden. Natural history notes 

 were also contributed by other members. 



The following were the principal exhibits of the evening : — 

 By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, two fine phasmidce from Alphington. 

 By Mr. C. C. Brittlebank, three stages of Agorista glyci?ie ; also 

 water-colour drawings of metamorphoses of several insects. By 

 Mr. A. W. Coles, tiger snake, with twenty-five young ones. By 

 Mr. C. French, jun,, fossils from Cheltenham, including Mono- 

 stychia Australis. By Mr. R. Hall, a frigate bird, Tachypetes 

 (Atagen) sp., from Maldon Island. By Mr. W. Jennings, a large 

 shark's tooth, whale ear-bones, and piece of jaw-bone, with 

 tooth attached, from Wauru Ponds ; whale ear-bone from 

 Cheltenham. By Mr. R. H. Nancarrow, nest and &gg of 

 Acanthiza uropygialis, in illustration of his paper, from the 

 Whipstick. By Mr. J. Searle, Victorian birds' eggs and 

 coleoptera ; also foreign coleoptera. By Mr. F. Spry, Victorian 

 lepidoptera, family Nymphalidas. By Mr. C. Yelland, five black 

 snakes. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



