206 THE VICTORIAN NA.TURALIST. 



Series IV. — PratelljE. — With brown or purple brown spores. 

 Sub-Order Psalliota. — Veil fixed to the stem, forming a ring. 



A. campestris. — This is the common mushroom of commerce. 

 Sub'Order Stropharia {A. semiglobatus). — On dung, University 

 reserve, Melbourne. Very small, light yellow, hemispherical. 

 Stem, 3in. high, thin, straight, and hollow. Gills adnate, 

 dark, but purplish. 

 Sub-Order Hypholoma. — Veil woven into a fugaceous web, which 

 adheres to margin of pileus. 

 A. dispersus. — Toongabbie, amongst grass. Pileus very 

 small, yellow, convex, dotted. Stem, lin. high, hollow. 

 Eing plain. Gills adnate, whitish. 

 Sub-Order Psilocybe.— Veil, if present, not forming a ring. Margin 

 of pileus at first incurved. 

 A. spadiceiis. — Ostler's Creek, Gippsland, on old stump. 

 Pileus 3in. broad, brown, convex ; the surface broken into 

 cracks. Stem 4in. long, thick and firm, hollow. Gills 

 adnexed. 



Series V. — Coprinaria. — With black spores. 

 Sub-Order Panoeolus. — Veil interwoven. Pileus fleshy, no strioe. 

 Margin at first extending beyond the clouded gills. 

 A. papilio7iaceus. -University Gardens, Melbourne, on dung. 

 Pileus hemispherical, whitish, smooth. Stem 3in. high, 

 equal. Gills very deep and adnate to stem, 

 Sub-Order Psathyrella. — Veil not interwoven. Pileus mem- 

 braneous, margin not extending beyond the gills. 

 A. trepidus. — Tangil River, Gippsland, on boggy ground. 

 Pileus lin. broad, brown, campanulate, very fragile. 

 Stem 3in. high, thin, straight, hollow. Gills adnate. 



NOTE ON THE NIDIFICATION OF THE CHESTNUT- 

 RUMPED ACANTHIZA(^C^iV7iy/Z^ UROPYGIALIS). 



By R. H. Nancarrow. 



(Read before the Field Natuj-alists' Club of Victoria, 1 2th March, 



1888.) 



About twenty years ago I used to do a good deal of nest- 

 hunting in the Whipstick, an isolated tract of mallee scrub, 

 commencing near the municipal boundary of Eaglehawk, and 

 extending in a northerly direction for more than twenty miles, by 

 a breadth, in some parts, of five or six miles. In and around the 

 scrub I met with several species of birds, respecting the nidifica- 

 tion of which Gould's recently-pubUshed handbook furnished 

 little or no information. To search for their nests was, there- 

 lore, a very pleasurable task. 



