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The Queensland Naturalist. 
July, 1928 
( ’hinese for soups, was very plentiful on dead and dying 
branches. The horsehair fungus (M'arasmius equicrinus), 
though not fruiting, was noticeable because of its peculiar 
black hair-like strands of mycelium stretching about from 
plant to plant. Dead and partially burnt wattles round 
the camp commonly had a population of a bleached white 
fungus, Schizophyllum commune, a weak parasite of 
cosmopolitan distribution. Stemonitis fusca, a myxomy- 
cete, was found fruiting in profusion on a rotting log in 
the rain forest; its fructifications look like microscopic 
hoop pines. 
A few r hours were spent at the end of Lahey’s tramway, 
at the border of National Park. The Laheys have left 
the natural vegetation along the tram line, and some* mag- 
nificent rain forest is to be seen. Most noticeable amongst 
the trees were the enormous hoop pines, their branches 
hung with the beard lichen, Usnea, and the trunks often 
bearing staghorn and elkhorn ferns and pencil , orchids. 
The walking stick palm (Eacularia monostachya), just 
past fruiting at this point, was common, and had not been 
seen in the rain forests round Canungra, though at one 
time no doubt present there. 
(d) Birds at Canungra. 
By G. H. BARKER. 
The most outstanding features of bird life at the 
camp and round it was that though there was always 
something to look at, never at any time were even small 
flocks seen on the w'ay to Canungra from Brisbane by car. 
It v T as pleasing to see the magpies scattered along the 
route, noisy miners being the only other birds more in 
evidence; magpie larks, black-throated butcher birds, 
and pale-headed rosellas and kookaburras being also in 
evidence. Round the camp Pennant’s parrakeet (or 
lowry), golden whistlers, and one of the cuckoos could 
be heard most. Right alongside one of the tents a pair 
of red-browed finches were nest-building. In the scrub 
just behind the tents an unfamiliar owl, yellow' robins, 
scrub tits, and other shy birds could always be seen. Dur- 
ing our log train trip to Upper Coomera on Monday we 
saw' the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, cat bird, rifle bird, 
and other rare species, which provided a fitting end to an 
ideal ornithologist’s holiday. 
List of birds seen or heard by members: — Little 
brown quail, peaceful dove, bar-shouldered dove, scrub 
