the toot ol How ill timber hai vcsiiui'. 

 was in progress. The while ti links ol 



ihe gums taj ci ws "Crossed on the 



lorn red earth like spilled matches. 

 Mils was not a loni; weekend and 



we had Ihe Mounl.uns to OvfeelVfe 

 Ihe Viking, ami ihe Razor, the ( 

 cut Saw, Cobbler and Spcculaiiun ft, 

 ta.lciul al least ol Ihe famous fcj 

 Mountains 



I an. indebted lo Mi I II Willis loi 

 Ihe following inloi illation: Qeum 

 ,n '■mnmi (<- oninion A veils I has al- 

 ways ken accepted as a truly indiitcn- 

 ous plain in S.I . Australia, as it also 

 Li in New /ealaiul whete Ihe Maoris 



hail a special name Pot it. "Koptua , 



I his h one of the lew species ol 

 typical boreal plants which turn up on 



, hit 



othi 



hut 



Hams ol" Ihe antipodes i«,, r , 

 .nd O/.vv ,rhinalu m 

 sually ihcse vauhm 

 populations dilfei enough lo he wonll' 

 of vaiK-lal .auk; llnis, out onK ( ,, U1I 

 is mote robust and laryci liowcr Cll 



hi. ui a-, i uropean eonnicrjiari and is 

 to he distinguished as the v.iucn 

 Hr/caw i in, a, i 



Readers' Nature Notes and Queries 



lnese two intciesimg notes come 

 from Miss 1. Gulhrait i. of lycis, in 

 Vtcto.ia. 



An intcrcstine discovery during n visit 

 to the Chiltern Mate Hnvst was the 

 tallest ( 1 have ever seen, with 



nunc than twice as inanv dowers as 

 I had previously Weil on a Beard 

 oich.d. II was C ttrtkerhU, the Naked 

 Heoid-oiclud, a an.lv p|.,ul amongst 

 many specimens of t lohcriumt , which 

 supports Dr. Rogers' theoiV that tl unehf 

 be a beauties form of that species. " 



I rii-erttpcr Noti s 

 A young White-throated liee 

 creeper which visited the bud table 

 for some weeks last auiiimu, taught 

 me lor the first time how very bright 

 brown the back of a voting tree- 

 creeper is. It was hardly darker than 

 (and quite as bright as) the beautiful 

 tail of a Rlllous FatU.ul 



ll was with another bird, doubt- 

 less a parent, in mature plumage, and 

 lor some time I thought they were 

 two species. The young bird was 

 evidently old enough to he indepen- 

 dent, for it was later driven awav 

 by the older bird. 



Both always approached the biro 

 lable (usually lor COCOftUt) hum 

 below, each spiralling round the pusi 

 in typical Iree-creepcr fashion, then 

 hopping up over ihe edge like u 

 lack-in-a hov This has been notal 

 on other occasions. All other birds 

 I have w, -itched appioaeh the hird- 

 tablc from above. 



I ree-creepcrs uoimally cling paral- 

 lel to a tree trunk when deeping or 

 feeding, and then body and legs art 

 adapted lo this. I doubt whether one 

 could stand in ihe normal perching 

 position — horizontally. Those that 

 come to mv hird-table always perch 

 vertical^, sitting erect like liny pen- 

 guins (complete even to white "shirl- 

 lioni 'i Probably woodpeckers and 

 othei bmls widi similar feeding habits 

 do the s.imic, but no other parching 

 hird that I know does this .so notice 

 ably One of the tree-creepeis often 

 sat erect on the cdpe of the bird 

 table for quarter of an hout or more 

 after feeding, as if ii enioyed my 

 company .1 yard away. 1 ccit.uni\ 

 enjoyed its company. 



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