THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 27 



however, to-day but a short march before us, and took things 

 easily, so that we had time to skin the bird and photograph 

 the camp and river before we started. Our track lay up the hill- 

 side and over the "Gap," then down again to the river. From the 

 top of the Gap we had our best complete view of Mount Welling- 

 ton, straight in front of us, with its two characteristic humps on the 

 long summit. We descended to the river, passing close to a 

 ruined hut in which Mr. Angus Shaw once lived. We came on 

 to the river again close to a deep pool, flanked by an enormous 

 vertical rock of black Devonian shale, which we stopped to 

 photograph. 



We found the photograph-taking rather a labour, as it involved 

 unpacking one of the pack-horses to get out the apparatus, and 

 thus caused half an hour's delay each time. Crayfishes were seen 

 moving slowly at the bottom of the pool. We continued our 

 journey up stream till we had made about lo miles from our last 

 camp, and found ourselves on a grassy flat near the junction of 

 two branches of the upper Wellington, and almost at the foot 

 of the mountain. Here we resolved to spend the afternoon 

 collecting, and pitched camp at about 12.30. After lunch we 

 went out to look for specimens, keeping to the banks of the river, 

 which is here narrow, but beautifully clear, with a rocky or pebbly 

 bottom, and with clusters of Lomaria now and again on the banks. 

 We devoted ourselves principally to log-turning, and were re- 

 warded by finding a new handsome black and yellow frog, six 

 species of Planarian Worms (one new and others very rare), a 

 number of earth-worms, and some curiously arranged eggs of 

 insects. With the exception of a planarian, a few centipedes, 

 SciUigera, and other millipedes obtained at another camp, the 

 above comprised all the cryptozoic animals we met with. The 

 frog will be described elsewhere, by Mr. Lucas, as Limnodynastes 

 nigro-lutea, and the new planarian by Dr. Dendy, as Geoplana 

 Jiowitti, after our leader. Meanwhile, diagnoses and notes on the 

 new or rare species obtained are added in an appendix to this 

 paper. Dr. Dendy shot three birds this afternoon — viz., the New 

 South Wales Green Oriole {Mimeta viridis), a Shining Flycatcher 

 {Myiagua plumhea)^ and a Ground Thrush. Gang Gang Cockatoos 

 and Wattle Birds were abundant near the camp, but the former 

 kept well out of the way of the gun. Mr. Lucas caught a fine 

 crayfish in the river, by means of a long forked rod. He con- 

 siders it to be closely allied to the Yarra crayfish described by 

 Professor M'Coy as a variety of Astacopsis serratus, and to be 

 best regarded as another variety of that species, and designated 

 similarly, var. wellingtonensis. Details of the differences will 

 be published. 



About this camp the river flows from side to side of a broad, 

 flat-bottomed valley, bordered by moderately steep grassy slopes. 



