186 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Tasmania——(Van Diemens Land), Labillardiere, R. C. 
Gunn; J. Carrol, 1874; Dr. Harvey and Mr. Ince (in British 
Museum) Clarke Islands, Mclaine; Mountain Heaths, R. Brown 
(1802-5), Nos. 533, 534, Fowlers Bay; Karolin and King Island, 
F. von Mueller; King Island, E. Spong, 1882; King Island, 
McQuarries Head, R. C. Gunn; Knocklofty, R. A. Bastow; Mt. 
Zechan, W. V. Fitzgerald; St. Patricks River, R. C. Gunn, 
16-11-1844; near Georgetown, Western Mountains, W. H. Archer; 
Quamby’s Bluff, W. H. Archer; Port Davey, Rev. J. Bufton, 
1893; Macquarie Harbour, Mr. Atkins; Circular Head, S$, Em- 
mett; Ulverston, Rev. F. R. M. Wilson; Port Esperance to 
Southport, D. Purvis; Geeveston, A. H. S. Lucas; Mount Wel- 
lington, A. H. S. Lueas. 
New Zealand.—Waiora Valley, W. Gardener; Whakare- 
warewa, Rotorua, E. Cheel; Lake Manopouri, J. Hawkins 
Smith; Hot Springs, Wairakei, W. Benson; Wangari Valley, 
S. Mossman (1850), No. 793. 
*The Wyalong specimen approaches the forma Sullivani 
Miill.-Arg., collected on the Grampians in Victoria by Mr. D. 
Sullivan. 
PIONEER NATURALISTS. 
By W. W. Froaearr. 
When I was a small boy about the year 1868, my father and 
some of his friends in Bendigo, where we were all interested 
in mining, used to look forward to the open season for game 
early in January, and used to pack up a week’s supply of food, 
drinkables and horse feed, and with kangaroo dogs, a retriever, 
and a bountiful supply of ammunition make over the plains 
of northern Victoria to the Murray Swamps, in those days 
the home of all kinds of ducks and wild fowl. On the park- 
like forest of the Terrick and Mount Hope Ranges and the 
open plains roamed mobs of kangaroos and families of emus, 
and the great plain turkey or bustard. ; 
In those days the land was all open with fences few and 
far between, usually about twelve miles apart. It was not. till 
1873 that the free selectors trecked up from the southern 
country, and the reign of the squatter ended. 
All of us hoys were naturally keen sportsmen, and it was 
one of the greatest treats to be taken with our elders on one 
of these shooting trips of 60 or 70 miles drive and back and 
we cheerfully did all the washing up, helped to feed the horses, 
tie up the dogs, and make ourselves generally useful. 
