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THE VICTORIASr NATURALIST. 



of the scene last mentioned, also pictures were taken of an eagle's 

 aerie, a nesting tree of the Boobook Owl, and the nest in sitit, 

 of a Sericornis cunningly cleft in a mossy bank. But it was 

 observed by those who had visited the locality before that the 

 destructive flood of last August had wrought great havoc with 

 some of the most beauteous portions of the gorge, especially 

 near the river. Some of the scenes depicted at the Club's last 

 conversazione have been entirely obliterated. Judging by the 

 former great flood (1863) it will be nearly 30 years before the 

 river banks will be so beautifully margined with stately trees and 

 shrubs. That is, of course, provided no other destroying flood 

 occurs in the interim. 



Birds were scarce compared vi^ith those observed by a con- 

 tingent of Mr. Keartland's Melton excursion that visited the 

 Werribee Gorge exactly this time last season. Six or seven 

 species of orchids were noticed flowering. About the same 

 number of ferns were seen. Many of the ironbarks and box- 

 trees were in bloom, while the river's banks were adorned with 

 several showy shrubs in flower. 



Some instructive geological notes bearing upon the locality, 

 and remarks upon impressions of leaves and fruits, will be pro- 

 bably offered by Mr. Sweet on another occasion. 



A. J. C. 



A CORRECTION. 



In the report of the Club's excursion to Brighton I misnamed a 

 rotifer Notops clavulatus ; it should have been Asplanchnopus 

 myrmeUo. When this was first examined by me, for purposes of 

 identification, the supplement to Hudson and Gough's " Rotifera" 

 was not procurable ; but it has since been unearthed in the Public 

 Library through the persistence of one of our members. This 

 rotifer possesses a foot very like that of Notops clavulatus, and 

 as the genus Asplanchna excludes all species with feet, I was led 

 to look elsewhere for its position. In the supplementary part of 

 the work mentioned a new genus is included, specially for the 

 reception of this and two other species. 



I further found that the supplement mentions, and somewhat 

 meagrely describes, a rotifer as Lacinularia pedunculata, found 

 by Mr. Whitelegge in New South Wales, agreeing, so far as the 

 description goes, with the Lacinularia I made the subject of a 

 note recently. This is mentioned by Dr. Hudson in his recent 

 presidential address to the Royal Microscopical Society as a 

 " prize." 



J. SHEPHARD. 



