30 THE WO J! BAT. 



Ardea novse hollandia?. — Rarely in the country near the town; 



common enough towards the Campaspe and in the granite 



country beyond Big Hill (towards Ravenswood). 

 Nycticorax caledonicus. — Have seen this bird at Axe Creek only, 



but no doubt it occurs on the Campaspe also. 

 Phalacrocorax novse hollandiaj. "\ — Have obtained both P. nov- 

 Phalacrocorax varius f holl. and P. varius from Lake 



Phalacrocorax leucogaster. C "Weeroona. They with, I 



Phalacrocorax stictocephalus. J think, P. leucogaster asad P. 



sitctocephalus ate occasionally to be seen on the various dams 



and creeks about the place. The late Mr Heine, caretaker 



at Lake Weeroona, informed me that he had killed as 



many as twenty cormorants in one day on the lake. 

 Podiceps nestor. — 27/8/99. A couple of dabchicks have made their 



home on the dam in the Upper Reserve for the last year 



or so. 

 Chenopis atrata. — Occasionally to be heard flying across. 



8/8/96. Two black swans, flying across the town, struck the 



top of the town hall, apparently dazzled by the electric 



light, and fell dead in the street below. 

 15/4/97. Saw a big mob fly across in a perfect phalanx, 



making north-east. • 



22/4/99. A wild black swan has joined the tame one on Lake 



Neangar, Eaglehawk. 



This does not pretend to be anything like a complete list of the 

 birds of the district, as the above notes are from my personal 

 observation only. They were made principally in the dense scrub of 

 ironbark and stringybark within a radius of about ten miles of 

 Bendigo, although a few go further afield. No doubt many more 

 birds are to be found in this scrub, and had I been able to do a bit 

 more work on the Campaspe the list could easily have been greatly 

 increased. 



The whole district may be divided into three parts : the 

 slate and quartz country immediately round the town which is 

 covered with a rather thick scrub of ironbark and stringybark, in 

 which most of these notes were made ; the open granite country to 

 the southwest, towards Kavenswood and Harcourt ; and the basalt 

 country round about the Campaspe. 



Towards the north ot Eaglehawk the scrub is particularly 

 dense though some parts are worse than others ; part of it 

 consists of stringybark saplings, part of mallee and patt of 

 hakea, and in parts we find the whole mass of it laced up with 

 creepers, so that one can only get through on hands and knees. 

 It was here that the late R. H. Nancarrow did most of bis work. 



r l he fact that there is a groat abundance of native trees in the 

 town (the street trees are principally gums) attracts unusual num- 



