40 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



By Mr. J. G. Luehmann, F.L.S. — Dried plants — Arenaria 

 axillaris and Acrotriche ventricosa, new to science, and Scirpus 

 prolifer, var. casfanea, new for Victoria. 



By Mr. D. M'Alpine, F.C.S. — Fungus, Clathrella pusilla, new 

 for Victoria. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Cocksfoot Grass seed, Dactylis glomerata, 

 growing from seed head ; two specimens of Fungus, growing on 

 " Take-alls ; " and skin of Native Bat. 



By Mr. F. M. Reader. — Dried specimens of Lepidosperma 

 viscidum, R. Br. ; Panicum sanguinale, L. ; Myoporum insidare, 

 L. ; and Trisetum subsjricatum, Palis., all unrecorded for the N.W. 

 of Victoria. 



By Dr. C. Ryan (per Mr. C. French, jun.) — Rare nest and 

 eggs of Keartland's Honey-eater ; also eggs of Rifle-bird, from 

 Richmond River, N.S.W. 



By Mr. Chas. Walter.— Dried plants — Stipa muelleri, Tate, 

 new for Victoria, from Wannon Valley, Grampians, collected by 

 H. B. Williamson ; new localities — Lepturus incurvatus and L 

 cylindrius, S.W. Victoria, H. B. Williamson coll. ; Ixiolcena 

 leptolepis, Benth., Keilor Plains., C. Walter coll. Also rare 

 plants — Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides, F. v. M., Keilor Plains, C. 

 Walter coll. ; Erechtites quadridenfala, De C., variety glabresaens, 

 Benth., Sandringham, C. French, jun., coll., and for comparison 

 E. quadridentata, narrow-leaved variety, Werribee River. 



After the usual conversazione, the meeting terminated. 



SOME ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 



(Concluded. ) 



Bv Robert Hall, 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 12th February, 1900.) 



3. A Tree-building Pardalote said to be Foster-Parent 

 to a Cuckoo. 



Two birds have been handed to me by Mr. Hedley Coles, with 

 the information that he saw the Pardalote, P. assimilis, Ramsay, 

 feeding one young Pardalote and a young Bronze Cuckoo, 

 Vhalcococcyx plagosus, Lath., upon a bough at Carrum on 25th 

 December last. I know of no case in which a Pardalote has been 

 known to act as foster-parent to any of the Cuculidae, but as the 

 young Cuckoo here mentioned was actually fed by the Parda- 

 lote (skins of both on the. table), and by all appearances was in 

 good fellowship with young and old, I mention the incident, and 

 wait for further information of similar cases. In the meantime 

 it opens certain interesting considerations. Why should a young 

 Cuckoo and a young Pardalote be peacefully fed together by 

 parent Pardalotes ? It is quite unusual, but the evidence is 



