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more extensive than you get from, say, Bulli Pass. Here 
are delightful little corners on the winding road, and the 
flowering cork and kurrajong give a pleasant variety of 
colour among the masses of vines and foliage. 
The brush on the Comboyne is rich in these well-known 
timbers, for which the North is famous, and it was some- 
thing of a novelty to sleep and eat in a weatherboard cot- 
tage of rosewood, lined throughout with the same valuable 
timber. 
There is a fine outlook from Comboyne towards the 
East, where ships fifteen miles away are clearly seen, and 
the waters of the lake glisten in the morning sun. Cas- 
cades and waterfalls are almost as common as country cul- 
verts, and as the rainfall is good, they are always worth 
seeing. 
Fifty species of birds were noted on the journey. 
Pigeons (five species), the Swamp Pheasant (a hand- 
some cuckoo, which builds its own nest), the Rifle Bird, 
the Regent Bower Bird, and a Wren with a chestnut 
back, were all new to me. 
Beetles in profusion cross one’s path. I collected 
_Anoplognathus chloropyra, Diaphonia dorsalis, Hupoecia 
australasiae, Diphucephala. 
Macleay’s Swallow-tail Butterfly was very plentiful, 
and Robber Flies in abundance. I collected three species, 
the giant Blepharotes splendidissima, Asilis grandis, and 
a Laphria. 
We saw the giant feasting on a spider, and another 
flying away with a fine Anoplognathus. I tried to capture 
this fellow while riding, but the novel conditions were too 
much for me and the horse, and he eseaped by flying to 
the top of a 50 ft. tree with his load. Solitary wasps 
(Humenidae) were plentiful, sheltering among the shrubs; 
but the hasty nature of our sight-seeing was not favour- 
able to the entomologist. 
The small beetle, Diphucephala, was collected on Bar- 
rington Tops. There were evidently millions of them on 
all the small flowers, like the orchids on the swampy ground. 
