December, 1926 The Queensland Naturalist. 
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They never stayed long enough in view to make an 
observer quite certain of their species, but they looked 
like striated Thornhills. Golden-breasted whistler and 
the ‘‘Tricolor Triller” (C leucomela) were among the 
“unusuals” recorded during the day. 
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Honour for Mr. R. Illidge. — The Royal Zoological 
'Society of New South Wales has elected Mr. R. Illidge, 
the veteran Queensland Entomologist, to lion, member- 
ship. In the letter of advice, the lion. Secretary, of the 
Society (Mr. A. F. Bassett-Hull) wrote:— “This election, 
upon the nomination of the Entomological Section of the 
Society, is made in recognition of the distinguished ser- 
vice you have rendered to Australian Zoology, and is the 
first election under the article relating to Honorary As- 
sociate Members.” 
Flora of Papua. — At the last monthly meeting of the 
Royal Society of Queensland, Mr. C. T. White (Govern- 
ment Botanist) read a paper by Mr. W. D. Francis and 
himself on the plants collected in Papua by Mr. C. E. 
Lane-Poole. Mr. Lane-Poole was appointed to report on 
the forest resources of Papua, and for this purpose visited 
the territory in 1922-3. He was later commissioned by 
the Commonwealth Government to report on the forest 
resources of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. The 
results of his work in the two regions have now been pub- 
lished as a Parliamentary paper by the Commonwealth 
Government, and add considerably to our knowledge of 
the flora of New Guinea. His account of the forest 
regions of Papua is particularly interesting; he divides 
the forests according to altitude, viz., Lowland forests 
(0-1, 000ft. above sea level),, foothill forests (1,000-5, 000ft. 
above sea level), mid-mountain forests (5,500-7,500f i 
above sea level), mossy forests (7, 500-11, 000ft. above sea 
level), and alpine forests, those occurring at an altitude 
of over 11,000ft. He then describes most of these in more 
or less detail; the first type is described under the three 
main headings, savannah forests, rain forests and man- 
grove forests. The work makes a distinct advance to our 
knowledge of the forest flora of Papua. 
