THE WOMBAT. 



Observations. As far as it is yet known the Yellow Parrakeet 

 has a somewhat limited range, being chiefly confined 

 to the inland provinces of New South Wales, Victoria, 

 and South Australia. The bird is numerous in some 

 localities, notably Riverina, where it appears to take 

 the place of the familiar rosella (P. eximhis), but its- 

 alarm notes are louder and harsher. 



I have noticed the Yellow Parrakeet as far south as the 

 Pyramid Hill and Echuca districts, Victoria. At the 

 latter place one dewy morning in early spring, I came 

 upon a flock of about 30 or 40 feeding upon the surface 

 of a sand rise. While placing myself under a clump 

 of silver wattles all abloom to make observations upon 

 this unusually large congregation of parrots, a pair of 

 vagrant dogs that had been rabbiting on their own 

 account close by, crossed the rise, and dispersed my 

 feathered friends. 



In the Moulamein district of Riverina, Mr. J. Gabriel 

 and myself found the Yellow Parrakeet numerous, 

 especially in the timber bordering streams, and not in- 

 frequently visiting the gardens of selectors and others. 



The birds were then (Sept.) pairing, or had paired, but 

 we were unable to discover in the numerous red gums 

 on the flat, or along the water courses, the eggs which 

 were new to science. However, Mr. S. White, with a 

 relative, who happened to be out collecting during the 

 .same month in the Flinders Range, South Australia, 

 kindly forwarded me a set of 4 eggs, which specimens 

 are herein described. They were taken on 20th 

 September, 1894, horn a hole under an elbow of a large 

 red gum (eucalypt) growing in a grassy vale in the 

 Warrabra Forest, which is about 200 miles odd north 

 of Adelaide. 



THE DOG ROCKS. 



By T. S. Hall. 



One of the first things, probably, that strikes any one who 

 notices the geological structure of any district is the change 

 that takes place in the vegetation as we pass from one type of 

 rock to another. Thus our " blue-stone" or lava plains are, 

 for the most part, treeless, and if we compare the shrubs and 

 grasses that grow on such an area with those that are found 

 on a stretch of sandy soil, the differences are striking. For 

 instance, on the road to Spring Creek for a mile or two beyond 

 Mount Duneed we are on a lava plain, with merely a few 

 patches of sand and gravel in places, and it is not till we cross 

 Bream Creek that we reach the heathy country. The change 



