170 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



good meal, and watching the sunrise, turn in for a few hours' 

 rest. 



28th November. — We are up rather late — about ten o'clock — 

 and strike camp at noon to retrace our steps to the Wood's 

 Point road. Despite the rain we have grown to like the Tanjil 

 camp, and leave it with regret. Fortunately it keeps fine whilst 

 we make our way through the scrub. Nothing can be much more 

 depressing than the latter in wet weather; it always seems to grow 

 just to the right height to soak your legs through and through, and 

 to send showers of cold spray down your neck. As we pass along 

 we note, amongst birds, in addition to those already named, the 

 Wonga Wonga Pigeon, the Harmonious Shrike-Thrush, and the 

 White-eyed Zosterops. 



Of course, after an hour or two it begins to rain hard, and we 

 can do little collecting, and trudge along the road till the 

 Travellers' Rest is reached. Here Mr. and Mrs. Fehrig tell us 

 that they entertained our two friends during the heavy rains 

 whilst we were in camp, and that reluctantly they had left their 

 hospitable roof, feeling it to be their duty to collect in the 

 country where it would be impossible for us to stay for any length 

 of time. Along the road we collect numerous specimens of 

 the land planarians already mentioned, with the coleoptera and 

 myriapoda commonly found beneath logs ; and as evening comes 

 on we are relieved to find our friends comfortably housed at the 

 Yarra Track Hotel, where we determined to spend the night 

 rather than to camp out in the wet. They also were relieved to 

 see us return safely, for the heavy rains had delayed us for one or 

 two days. 



We are rather struck with the curious reticence of the two who 

 stayed in the Travellers' Rest with regard to their enjoyment of 

 the visit, but from remarks let fall every now and then we judge 

 that neither the language of, nor the viands provided by, the host and 

 hostess — the latter item consisting apparently mainly of sour kraut 

 and gooseberry wine — were very enticing. Monday and Tuesday 

 they had been forced to spend indoors, but on Wednesday, with 

 promise of a little clearing in the weather and the memory of the 

 two previous days strong upon them, they had, at the sound and 

 sight of some remarkable culinary operation, turned and fled, 

 never again to enter the door of the Travellers' Rest. Once out 

 of sight of the latter they began to collect. Very many logs 

 were overturned on the way to the Yarra Track Hotel, and though 

 under each were many individual specimens, yet these were, as 

 usual, representative of only a very few genera and species, the 

 most numerous being Lissotus cancroides, Homalosoma dingo, 

 Homalosoma (sp.), Notonomus (two species), and Carenum (sp.) 

 Owing to the heavy rains the flowering shrubs and gum saplings 

 yielded but poor results, almost the only thing shaken from them 

 being Chrysomelas of the genus Paropsis. 



