48 WHITE— A Sketch of the Life of Samuel White. 



stricted, as a small collection only could be carried to points 

 where it could be forwarded. When they got down 

 into New South Wales, the Hawkesbury River gave the tra- 

 vellers much trouble, because this fine river throws out in- 

 numerable arms into a very rough country, so they had to climb 

 one rocky ridge after another to be confronted by one of these 

 arms. It was here that the King Parrot was met with in 

 numbers, and the brothers spent some time in observing 

 these birds in their natural habitat. Having crossed 

 the Hawkesbury river at last, they pushed on to Sydney, and 

 camped a few miles from the town ; a very rare moth was cap- 

 tured at this camp. (In 1880 I accompanied my father when he 

 tried to locate this camping place, but found it a densely popu- 

 lated centre.) Having sent on their collections and having 

 had a rest for a week, the naturalists once more set out 

 on foot — this time Melbourne was the objective. Travelling 

 some distance inland they soon lost the sub-tropical jungles 

 and the animal and insect life changed with the country,, 

 their collecting soon dwindled down to a few specimens each- 

 day. From a pastoral point of view, the country was excellent,, 

 with great stretches of open timber beautifully grassed, 

 and in some cases open downs. Although the natura- 

 lists admired the wonderful timber and beautiful country, they 

 missed the prolific collecting ground amidst the sub-tropical 

 belt, still they found much to interest them in bird life, on this 

 journey between the capitals of New South Wales and Vic- 

 toria, the overlapping of species alone was a most interesting 

 subject. In due course Melbourne was reached and the bro- 

 thers decided to take boat home, and they reached Adelaide 

 some ten or eleven months from the time they had set out. The 

 same journey in these times of rapid transport would be 

 thought little or nothing of, but in those days it required some 

 pluck to face it. as well as being a good bushman and able to* 

 put up with much privation to bring the journey to a success- 

 ful termination. 



[To be continued.] 



