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The Queensland Naturalist. August, 1935 
well-known ornithologist of Western Queensland. After 
some delay, the Government consented to have this bird 
put on the totally protected list, a matter that will bring 
satisfaction to all bird lovers, both in Australia and 
abroad. It may be mentioned that at the present time 
there is a general trend towards nature protection in 
Queensland. Enquiries into reports of bird poisoning by 
dingo baits were made, and in most cases found to have 
little or no basis. 
PRESERVATING PLACES OF SCIENTIFIC 
INTEREST : — A notice has been placed on the Bora ring 
on the Nudgee Reserve. Another notice has been erected 
at the Leichhardt Street quarry, with the hope that they 
will help to preserve these interesting features, anthro- 
pological and geological respectively, in the city area, and 
the club has helped financially to have these notices pre- 
pared. 
EXCURSIONS : — The Honorary Excursion Secre- 
tary (Mr. J. E. Young) reported the excursions held dur- 
ing 1934 were fairly well maintained. At the annual 
Easter camp, at Mt. Edwards, a total of 50 members and 
their friends were present. 
The arrangements for so many, and at the site chosen, 
necessitated somewhat more work than usual, but all this 
was successfully accomplished. 
The site was at the mouth of Mt. Edwards gorge, 
which forms a remarkable feature in the shape of a cleft 
in the trachytic substance of the mountain. (See Dr. E. 
0. Marks, in “Queensland Naturalist, ” Vol. 9, No. 3. 
This locality presents a fair variety of country, 
scrub, rain forest, and open forest, mountain and lowland, 
to explore. 
Mt. Edwards and Greville were both ascended, the 
latter by a rift or gorge on the south-eastern side, in 
which palms, tree ferns, and the Queensland Beech 
(Gmelina), were noticeable, the former for their great 
height. 
Different branches of study were followed up, and the 
preparation of specimens at night, were watched with 
much interest. 
The weather was good and in marked contrast to 
that experienced nearer to the metropolis. 
Other excursions were held during the year, to the 
following places:— Lone Pine Zoo, Nudgee Waterholes, 
St. Helena (by motor boat), Beerwah Forest Station (full 
day), Mt. Mee (week-end). Bribie Island (week-end), One 
Tree Hill, Holland Park to Rocklea, and Sunnvbank to 
Runcorn, and Sandgate lagoons (half-day, for water- 
