30 THE WOMBAT. 
Ardea nove hollandia.—Rarely in the country near the town; 
common enough towards the Campaspe and in the granite 
country beyond Big Hill (towards Ravenswood). 
Nycticorax caledonicus. —Have seen this bird at Axe Creek only, 
but no doubt it occurs on the Campaspe also. 
Phalacrocorsx nove hollandia.>) —Have obtained both P. nov. 
Phalacrocorax varius holl, and P. varius from Lake 
Phalacrocorax leucogaster. Weeroona. ‘They with, I 
Phalacrocorax stictocephalus. think, P. leucogaster and P. 
sticlocephalus ate occasionally to be seen on the various dams 
and creeks about the place. ‘The late Mr Heine, caretaker 
at Lake Weeroona, informed me that he had killed as 
many as twenty cormorants in one day on the lake, 
Podiceps nestor.—27/8/99. A couple of dabchicks have made their 
home on the dam in the Upper Reserve for the last year 
or 80. 
Chenopis atrata,—Occasionally to be heard flying across. 
8/8/96. Two black swans, flying across the town, struck the 
top of the town hall, apparently dazzled by the electric 
light, and fell dead in the street below. 
15/4/97. Saw a big mob fly across in a perfect phalanx, 
making north-east. 
22/4/99. A wild black swan has joined the tame one on Lake 
Neangar, Eaglehawk. 
This does not pretend to be anything like a complete list of the 
birds of the district, as the above notes are from my personal 
observation only. ‘They were made principally in the dense scrub of 
jronbark and stringybark within a radius of about ten miles of 
Bendigo, although a few go further afield. No doubt many more 
birds are to be found in this scrub, and had I been able to do a bit 
more work on the Campaspe the list could easily haye been greatly 
increased. 
The whole district may be divided into three parts: the 
slate and quartz country immediately round the town which is 
covered with a rather thick scrub of ironbark and stringybark, in 
which most of these notes were made; the open granite country to 
the southwest, towards Ravenswood and Harcourt ; and the basalt 
country round about the Campaspe. 
Towards the north ot Eaglehawk the scrub is particularly 
dense though some parts are worse than others; part of it 
consists of stringybark saplings, part of mallee and part of 
hakea, and in parts we find the whole mass of it laced up with 
creepers, so that one can only get through on hands and knees, 
Tt was here that the late R. H. Nancarrow did most of his work. 
‘The fact that there is a great abundance of native trees in the 
town (the street trees are principally gums) attracts unusual num- 
