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fellow, contrasting strangely with his stealthy, assassin-like 
relative a few yards higher up the bank. We tossed a tiny 
slice of cheese into the hollow. Soon the lizard came up, 
approved, took the fragment into his mouth and began munching 
with great appreciation. Very comical he looked, glancing up 
at us with bright eyes, with a little of the cheese projecting on 
each siae of his smooth brown head. Soon he was joined by 
another, to whom a fragment of peach was thrown, which was 
taken charge of with as much evidence of appreciation as was 
the cheese. Leaving these friendly little fellows, we explored 
down the creek for some distance, and by -and- by came upon 
a hole of muddy water which had survived the rainless period. 
Around it grew plants of the straggling “ Brook-lime ” (Cratiola 
peyuviana), with opposite leaves and small pinkish flowers, the 
stem and leaves most bitter when chewed ; above us were long- 
leaved Acacias, and above these again the tall Eucalyptus, their 
leaves hanging vertically in the sultry air. As I went a little 
lower down the creek-bed, a big Iguana sprang off a heap of 
dry rubbish on which he had been reposing and made a bee-line 
for the nearest gum-tree, up which he went at the double, 
sticking his sharp talons into the bark while working his long 
head from side to side and growling savagely at the intruder on 
his peace. 
Melbourne, Victoria, H. Stuart Dove. 
March 6, 1907. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Death of Mrs. Turle. — We much regret to hear of the 
death of Mrs. Turle, an old friend and member of the Selborne 
Society and a frequent contributor to our pages. Mrs. Turle 
was the daughter of the well-known naturalist the Rev. F. O. 
Morris, and the widow of the late Rev. W. H. Turle, and died 
at St. Albans, which had been her home for some years. 
Illness of Mrs. Percy Myles. — All Selbornians will hear 
with regret that Mrs. Percy Myles has been compelled to submit 
to a serious surgical operation. She is at present m Fitzroy 
House, Fitzroy Square, and we are glad to say is making 
satisfactory progress. 
SwiNEY Lectures. — A course of twelve lectures (to which 
admission is free) on “ Horses : Past and Present,” will be 
given by Professor J. Cossar Ewart at the N'ictoria and Albert 
Museum, South Kensington, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays 
in December, commencing on Friday, December 6, at 5 p m. 
