168 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



blue or white corollar expansions ; achenes glabrous ; pappus- 

 bristlets ciliolar-serrulated, the outer extremely short. 



On Mount Hothani, at an elevation of about 6,000 feet. 



This small shrub was known to me for some time, but was 

 laid aside for further studies in comparison to Aster stellulatus, 

 it having precisely the leaves of one of the small forms of that 

 species ; but the headlets are larger than those pertaining to any 

 of the varieties of the latter, while the involucrum is in structure 

 very similar to that of A. exnl ; nevertheless, the plant may only 

 constitute a very marked variety of A. stellulatus. 



NOTE. 



Mr, a. J. Campbell has returned after a three months' trip to 

 Western Australia. He has been very successful in his observa- 

 tions and collections. He obtained about 80 different species of 

 eggs, 13 of which it will be necessary to describe as new. The 

 number of eggs obtained altogether was about 400. Something 

 like 100 skins of birds were collected, though Mr. Campbell did 

 not make this a specialty. With regard to geographical range of 

 the birds he was particularly successful in his observations. No less 

 than 1 7 species will be recorded as new for Western Australia. 

 Possibly one or two may be deemed new varieties, while others 

 will be restored, having been omitted from a lately issued tabular 

 list. Baron von Mueller has examined the plants, and finds that 

 two ferns, Asplenium marinum and A. trichomanes (both British 

 species, by the way) are recorded for the first time from the western 

 colony. Out of 30 lichens collected, the Rev. F. R. M. Wilson 

 has identified 20 as new for the same colony. Specimens of 

 characteristic lizards and frogs {e.g., Heleiopoi'us albo-ptmdatus) 

 were secured. About three dozen photographs tvirned out fairly 

 well, those of the remarkable flights of sea birds being of very 

 great interest. Mr. Campbell considers that he brought nearly 

 1,000 natural history specimens in all back to Melbourne. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 

 Sir, — Being on a collecting excursion to Oakleigh district a month 

 ago, I was surprised to find in a nest of Yellow-rumped 

 Geobasileus {Geobasileus chrysorrho^a) two eggs of the Bronze 

 Cuckoo {Lainprococcyx plagogus). This seems a strange fact, that 

 two eggs of the Bronze Cuckoo should be in the same nest. 

 Does the Bronze Cuckoo lay more than one egg a season ? — I am, 

 yours, &c., 



C. FRENCH, JuN. 

 South Yarra, 22nd December, 18S9. 



