THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 47 



NOTES ON A TRIP TO THE UPPER MURRAY. 



By C. French, Jun. 



{Readhef ore Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, i\th May, 1888.; 



I LEFT Melbourne by the 2.55 p.m. train on Cup Day, 1886, in 

 company with a friend, Mr. S. Jephcott, at whose invitation I 

 was visiting the Hume district. We reached Albury about 

 II. 10, and stayed at the Albury Hotel for a day, we having 

 heard that the coach for Ournie had just gone, so we thought 

 it better to cross the river and go down with the coach on the 

 Victorian side. Having to wait in Wodonga for a couple of 

 days, we paid a visit to Mount Huon, a distance of about two 

 miles east from the township. On the way to the mount, we 

 found in the eucalyptus trees numerous nests of the yellow- 

 rumped geobasileus with eggs. On the mount there is a fine 

 view of the Snowy, Buffalo, and Kosciusko Mountains; Kosciusko 

 and Snowy, being covered with snow, presented a very pretty 

 sight. The plants noticed were very much the same as may be 

 found growing around Melbourne — namely, Helichrysum 

 semipapposum, H. scorpioides, Leptorrhynchus squamatus, 

 Wahlenbergia gracilis, Caladenia Patersoni, Cheilanthes tenui- 

 folia, C. vellea, Arthropodium strictum, etc. The reptilia 

 noticed were the copper-headed and black snakes. 

 Lace lizards were very numerous, but birds were rather 

 scarce, the only ones noticed being magpie-larks {Grallina 

 picata), garrulous honey-eater {Myrzantha gafTula), black 

 fantail (Sauloprocta ijiotacilloides), black-backed porphyrio 

 {Porphyria melanotus), little grass-bird {Sphenaeacus gramineus'), 

 brown tree-creeper {Climacteris scandens), yellow-rumped 

 geobasileus {Geobasileus chry sops'), also several species of honey- 

 eaters. We spent the remainder of the time in Wodonga 

 searching the waterpools. and in them found Azolla rubra and a 

 species of Riccia. 



{To be continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



SNAKE-BITES. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 

 Sir, — As one who has seen much of the action of snake 

 poison, I have read, with very great interest, the letter of your 

 correspondent, Mr. Charles French. During a long residence 

 in South Africa I have seen several natives, and on one occa- 

 sion a Madras coolie, while suffering from snake-bite ; also, I 

 have known bullocks, a horse, and several dogs to be killed by 

 venomous snakes. Every human patient coming under my 



