94. THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST 
J. Campbell, six Queensland honey-eaters with nests and eggs, viz: — 
the yellow honey-eater (Pélot’s flava), the uniform coloured honey- 
eater (P. wnicolor), Lewin’s honey-eater (P, Lewini?), the fuscous. 
honey-eater (P. fusca), the brown honey-eater (Stigmatops ocularis),. 
and the blue-faced honey-eater (Hntomyza cyanotis), the nests and 
eges of the two first mentioned being new to science; by Mr. J. 
Perey Chirnside, specimens from the Geyser Basin, Sulphur 
Mountain, etc., Yellowstone Park, U.S.A.; by Mr. A. W. Coles, 
about fifty species of Queensland birds, native weapons, ete.; by-Mr. 
J. KE. Dixon, orchid Chiloglottis Gunnii, in bloom; by Mr. C. French, 
a large scorpion from Sumatra; by Master G. French, a rare orchid 
Prerostylis reflewa, var. revoluta, from Oakleigh; by Mr. T. A. Forbes- 
Leith, nests and eggs of the following birds, the white-shafted fan- 
tail (Rhipedura albiscapa), the restless fly-catcher (Se’sura inquieta), 
the red-capped robin (Petrotca goodenovi’), and the white-fronted 
ephthianura (Hphthianura albifrons); by Rev. J. J. Halley, mounted 
slides of diatoms, Arachnoidiscus Japonicu, A. heliopelta (arranged) 
and Hupodiscus Rogersii; by Miss Halley, water-colour drawings of 
thirteen orchids from the wild flower exhibition; by Mr. H. W- 
Hunt, nests and eggs of Victorian birds; by Mr. H. Kennon,. 
ammonites from Whitby, England; by Mr. D. Le Souéf, a rare 
lizard from Wodonga, ancient greenstone tomahawk from New 
Zealand, and granite polished by glacial action, from George Sound, 
New Zealand; by Dr. T. P. Lucas, eggs of the larger Australian 
birds, viz., Cassowary, Emu, Spotted Hmu, Tallegalla, Mallee Hen, 
Megapode, Pelican, Albatross, and Native Companion; eggs of 
Oyster-catcher and Terns, from Australia, South Pacific, and 
Britain ; Australian Lepidoptera Lycenidw, Agoriste, Noctue, etc.,. 
including several species of banana-feeding Ophideres from 
Queensland; by Mr. J. E. Prince, a diatomoscope; by Mr. F. Reader, 
fungi hitherto unrecorded for Victoria, Peziza Drummondi, Berk.,. 
Lymenorhete tabacina, Sow., Guepinia pezizeformis, Berk., Ustilago 
utriculosa, Tul., also plants from Studley Park, Typhacee to 
Cyperacee; by Mr. Thie, asbestos from New South Wales, Tasmania, 
and America, silver-ore from Silverton, N.S.W., and Victorian 
sea-weeds; by Mr. H. T. Tisdall, fungi and drawings in illustration 
of his papers. 
After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 
THE EXCURSION TO LAL LAL. 
Tae ninth of November, 1885, will be a day long to be remembered 
by such members of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, as 
joined in the excursion to the Lal Lal and Moorabool falls. This. 
