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EXCURSION TO NORTHGATE JUNCTION, 6tli 
AUGUST, 1910. 
REPORT ON POND LIFE. 
By W. R. Colledge. 
The section of the Club devoted to Pond Life fished 
in Virginia Creek and the adjacent pools. A fine collection 
of Volvox glohator was found in one detached pool, but none 
in the others. A specimen of the larva of Paraponyx was 
obtained which was at first thought to be one of the Caddis 
fly, as it had severed two pieces of the leaf of the water plant 
Otelia ovalifolia, cementing them together for a dwelling, 
but from the difference of the head and thorax from the 
Caddis larva, and the branchial appendages, it was 
identified as a Paraponyx. Various species of Rotifers 
were found, including Mastigocerca elongata, M. hirostris, 
Anurea aculeata, A. cochlearia, Synchceta stylata, S. ovalis, 
Copias cerheris, Metopidia solidus, M. tripteraj Salpina 
eustala, Dinocharis tetractis, Euchlanis oropha, and Cono- 
chilus dossuaris. These were all forms that had been 
previously found on other excursions. In addition, one 
that I had not formerly recognized was taken, viz., Philodina 
citrina. Quite a number of infusorial, black Stentors 
appeared. Among other specimens collected were — a very 
small variety of Cyclops quadricornis ; Diaptomus castor ; 
Diatoms of the genus Synedra ; and a very fine alga of the 
species Zygnema, some of the filaments of which were in 
conjugation. 
A FEW IMPRESSIONS OF THE BIRDS OF NORTH- 
GATE, 1910. 
By G. H. Barker. 
Saturday, 6th August, was certainly a bird lover’s 
day. The afternoon was warm and bright, and on every 
hand was evidence of the departure of our short-lived Winter. 
In the Bird world no time is being lost in the annual house- 
hunting ; in fact, some of our friends have evidently made 
a very early start, as we came across the nest of the 
