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THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Canoon, and Thelangerin. The country looks well, and 
wild game is plentiful on the Lachlan especially. Quail, 
several species, including the large stubble quail, small 
button quail, and a quail with red feathers on the breast. 
Several good bags were made recently. 
In parts of the Lachlan small fish (Carp) are in 
millions; the water is black with them; and great flocks 
of shags are following and eating them. e fish are con- 
centrated in one large water-hole near Thelangerin home- 
stead, and another near Corrong homestead; but they are 
followed by the shags, in spite of the fact that the latter 
,are being constantly shot at and otherwise disturbed. The 
Carp seem to know that they are safer near the habita- 
tations of man. Among these Carp are many red ones. I 
understand these fish (Carp) are a plague on other useful 
fish, eating their eggs; but the cod and perch are also 
plentiful. On some of the lakes and swamps, ducks, swans, 
and other wild fowl generally, are in millions. 
On one swamp near the Lachlan one man Akal re- 
_ cently to destroy the shags, as they are said to hunt the 
wild ducks. He and.a mate started in the morning by 
killing all the young shags they could lay hands upon and 
smashing all the eggs. They worked hard until midday, 
when they were knocked up, and they had destroyed only 
a very small fraction of the young birds and eggs in the 
swamp. 
~ Orcuips.—In the Victorian Naturalist for Hebruary 
and March there is a most interesting paper by Mr. EH. EH. 
Prescott, dealing with the repreduction of terrestrial 
orchids. Mr, .Prescott shows that in the plants studied, 
notwithstanding the elaborate mechanical contrivances for 
ensuring cross-fertilisation, and although abundance of 
seed may be produced, it has never been shown that the 
-seed will germinate, and reproduction seems to be entirely 
dependent on the growth of tubers on the roots. We com- 
mend the paper to the notice of our members.—Ed. 
DEVELOPMENT OF Antheraca eucalypti.cThe follow- 
ing interesting note, by Mr. H. A. Milligan, of the publie 
school, New Lambton, was read at the March meeting. In 
December, 1916, five larve of the Emperor Gum Moth 
spun their cocoons. In February, 1917, one moth emerged. 
Up to December, 1917, there had been no further develop- 
ments, so I cut open two cocoons. One chrysalis was dead, 
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