MM int.- Wypcrfcld. Keith Hatcly 



|_ Jt -survived the lire and hud 

 , iutnvd W »t* mound lo lind ii too 

 hot w work. No effective measures 

 "LjiSl t he lires then existed, but 

 |, u ny access tracks have been pul in 

 Mitce. Because of the fox menace, 

 Kudd was eiven permission to carry 

 , 21 i ille. with which he shot JS 

 ' m |he Bifl week' 



On the walk back Com ihe mound 

 were seen Suickliouiio. Ophiaslnssuin . 

 \ U w>vi<tluni. Acacia nilamilolm and 

 /Wo/«/'iv cnpillatts. ©lla* Lee photo- 

 flr|||ihed .1 Malice Mouse Spider, the 

 i„,s Slopped on the return trip so 

 ,h;ii obSCfvjtfWn'i could lie made and 

 photographs laken of over a bundled 



-us Tod line on Ihe grass \ lake-bed. 



In the afternoon some of us 

 climbed Mount MattingJcy. an impos- 

 ing vand hill eomrnemoraling Arthui 

 ll t . Maltinglcy, a founder member 

 Ql the R.A.O.U. and President of 

 lr. u Bird Observers" Club and tumid 

 League, VfttOSC enthusiastic desenp- 

 , l0 n' t a his visit bP Pine Plains lind 

 Camha-Cunvii in September, 1907 

 [MM l /(t. m «: M-77. Ocl. 1909. 

 ltd to the hrsi mbv« for the creation 

 q| Wvperlekl National Park. Ibis 

 wcll-dlusttated report is full of 

 .nlefcsi. ami a pertinent quote is ' ,s 

 lollnws: 



The whole r'ace 1S •' Perlcei para 

 disc lor nature lovers, and in W* 01 

 j|s probable carl} OfMluhS up tol 

 settlement. Won-a Basin, alonj; with 



Bi imbrOQli afld loo aqromntj! lurn- 

 wrrttp I locally called Cherry-whip I. 

 should eeitainly be reserved . . . 

 Evetiastins HoWCtt grow to per Teuton 

 Cjl ihe sand-ridyet. and were ten or 

 bwtoril] IhoOiftjtJ acres of this country 

 set aside as a national park, it would 

 k ,i IQOM valuable herniate tor 

 future genet ations of natute .students . 



Vlattinelev and his companions. J 

 V. Ross and f. T. Howe, bad been 

 inspire) to visit the area by reading 



contribuiioiis lo Donald Macdonaid's 

 "Nature Noles" column in 'Tilt, 

 At&A? by -Malice Bird", the pen 

 name of Charles McLennan, who 

 soon after became first ranger or 

 Wilsons Promontoiv National Park. 

 Mr. Mcl ennan and the station owucr. 

 Mr. Pouhon. were most helpful to 

 Ihe three visitors Ironi Melbourne, 

 and posteiny owes them a debt. 



Man l.cyg and (amity (camping, 

 hut nm of the 1- N.C'.V party) 

 guided us lo the nest ol a Southern 

 Scrub - lobin ( Dtymodcs hrUM&* 

 pvgin). but the bin! tores not about 

 when wc rcaeheil n. and the ne-<4 

 was untenanted; ihey had observed d 

 four times previously. Curiously, Pus 

 bird, which was obviously COrflmpn 

 when Maitinglcy observed it m 1907. 

 is omitted from Tarr's Wyperteld 

 bird list. or. probably. Southern 

 Scnih-wren has been printed in error 

 In Roy Wheelers "A Handlist of the 

 Birds of Victoria" the Southern 

 Scrub-wren's habitat map includes the 

 Wypcrfcld siren, but neither ihe 

 Urge-hilled Scrub- wren nor the 

 Whnc-browcd Scrub-wren (Scricwni\ 

 jpp.f is lound in north-western Vic 

 loria. no "Southern Scrub-wren" 

 being included in his book nor m 

 those of Cav ley or teach Ihe Lcggs 

 also took us to a hollow dominated 

 by a veritahle "forest" of 0C$I1 

 Banksias. in full flower, with ball a 

 dozen species of honeyealers. includ- 

 mg the While eared, the Yellow - 

 winged. the Spiny-cheeked and the 

 Red Waille-hird, all gorging them- 

 selves with nectar and from tune to 

 lime flving up to cither of two dead 

 Black Bo\ trees that bounded the area 

 on Ihe north and the south, making 

 themselves conspicuous for easy 

 observation through held glasses, 

 l-aiitails and tree-creepers weic also 

 noted. 



^ honn./u.g walk through the 

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