MA WAtc.mi.ry Bcurrhirtf Visits Melbourne [ y^ -,* ' 



pecking at window -panes, and that Donald Mzcdbnald suggested 

 th r dt it was "jealously fighting its own reflection". 



Our suburban howcr-bird was reported in the A(tf in the "Mews 

 of the Day" column, on September 6, 1956.. and on October IJ, 

 the General Meeting of the F.N.C.V. heard the recording Of its 

 vocal performance and saw several colour slides of the bird and 

 its bovver. 



The final chapter in (he .story came in a letter hom Mr Davev ; 

 on September 20 he wrote: 



During til* last week, he did l*P knocking on the batbrocirn window This 

 was mn*L noticeable, .is since June he bad clone so muc?i at it. He ipent a Jot 

 or time at the window, preening and eaniig and "fthistlincr. but not knocking. 



The '.lays gradually grew warmer and thir. may have urged him to ehun;.*e 

 his habits and eventually move a Way. The COQdftfafl of the bower deteriorated 

 a httle, and on the Thursday we raw him working at it for a short time, U 

 did not took much unproved, however 



On the Saturday morning (September 15) it was bt fair condition, ttfi 

 seemed unusually triendly that morning. fmO bpent <i couple vi hours on the 

 western window-sill, ffivhtc a fine performance there, i was working in th-. 

 Garden quite near god he took tittle notice oi me. He was on the window at 

 2 p.m. when I left borne. At about 3 p.m. Mts. T>avey, who was sitting in 

 thf garden, beard him jrivp two picruiig r<dls hut did tint see htm PfCjP 

 that moment we have seer, or heard nncbmR of him. 



As 1 heard nothing from him on Sunday morning I looked nt the bower 

 and found it almost flattened. Only a few of the heavier .sliekr. were r.umdmg. 



T am hopjng that no barm came to Mflfi Sttfii shall look forward to finding 

 Imn in our garden again some future day. 



INTERMEDIATE LOCALITY FOR VICTORIAN BUTTEftFLY 



"Ry Or n, t.c Snutr. Tllaireowrie 



When the first Victorian race of tlic- snull -Skipper Hcspcriita crypsar&yrj 

 was found in the Oramp'ius ill 1^ r >0, n was at oncy though i that there would 

 probably be .in intermediate race in eastern Victoria. 



When invoking the KpCcies of ft* food pfafrfl Ywtli J. H. Willis id the 

 National Herbarium, it was surprising to find that the i>aw-sed&e, Cah*\w 

 micfo.stachh, had not before been recorded from this locality despite the fact 

 ih.n it urows in piofusion along the Mt. Wiiliatn Hack. However, it had been 

 recorded by H.iron von Mueller in Gipiwfand. 



it. 10S4, a.txnmija.*.iii d by my fftft Nicolas, 1 Visjttd the J&&golOtl£ area 

 in search of this jtetcfi of Saw-sed^e. After two days.' searching, wc eventually 

 fonnd it on a Jimc used forest access track about twenty miles from BrtaaSv 

 lutiff, Kei« Nicolas netted a male and we took several larvae On a litter visit 

 he took a female and we netted several more males Their number* were 

 very limited 



On a recent visit to Mr. N". R. Tinrkle at 1he. M/iith Australian Museum, it 

 Tyaj with some interest rliat we checked the series front Gipp&land with ihotc 

 from the Grampians and the Blue Mountains. TtiW study confirmed the theory 

 earlier nut forward by Mr. Tituble, in his paper in the /cV<v>rrf.< aj thr $<A. 

 Must jrtjj, thnt the Gip^s'land *$©e would be more closely allied to ibe N.S.W. 

 race licsfierUh trypiarijyro crypsaroym than to the western race H. cryp- 



An interesting ieature is that, while the Blue Mountains race is found above- 

 2,GQ0 feet autr the Grampians one between IfiOO aiH 2,\Wl »>et. the Gtppsland 

 specimens were taken, at ajri wUitude of beiwecJi ?00 and 400 feet. 



