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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST Mt'm^Mwq^I^^^M t^^ h P ^^'«ir^ I'r HARVARD UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. HoyyujxxAA/- IL l^/T. n^^7 a?i3:jB m ii will THE JOURNAL & MAGAZINE OF THR f-O- ''-r ^ — /Oto CXiXX^CtCeLal ,^-r 'i. -^''A4-^ -y JANUARY 1884 TO APRIL 1885. The Author of each Article is responsihle for the facts and opinions he records. J. C> MITCHELL, PEINTEE, CLARENDON STREET. 1885. jT — INDEX TO VICTORIAN NATUB,AI.IST. VOL. I. PAGE Alga, Fresh Water - 21 Anecdotes of Seals - 79 Animal Intelligence - 9(5 Another Scotch Naturalist 180 Australian Talking Birds 80 Bailey, The late j! F. - o9 Ballarat Field Club 58, 70 Baw-Baw, Fungi of Mt 169 Birds, List of Victorian 6-4, 74 Birds, Protection of ISTative 32 Book, Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds - :52 Botanical Notes 16, 51, 101, 122 Bryophyllum - - 102 Latouria - - - 81 Rhododendron - - 101 Sanseviera - ' - 102 Scsevola - _ - 122 " Camp out" at Olinda Creek - - - 110 Correspondence 8, 15, 24. 32, 68, 80, 132. Early Flowering of Plants - - 68 Entomology - - 80 Postal Microscopical Society - - 15 Sparrows - - 132 Snakes, Suicide of - 32 Dandenong Ranges, Outing at - - li Double Flowers - - 50 Eucalyptus, Classification of 30 Excursions, 83, 98, 110, 112 Cheltenham - - 83 Frankston - 98, 112 Olinda Creek - - 110 Exhibition, Intercolonial 18 Fauna of Victoria: Mammalia - 12 Birds - , 64, 74 Reptiles - - - 86 —g INDEX {Continued.) PAGE PAfiE Orchids of Victoria: Ranunculacefe of Victoria, Orthoceras 118 The - - - 19 Prasopliyllum - 119. 131 Reptilia, List of Victorian 86 Sarcochilus 53 Scotch Naturalist, Another 130 Spiranthes 55 Seals, Anecdotes of - 79 Thelymitra 59 Snakes, Tasmanian - 83 Outing at Dandelion Snakes, Victorian Venomous 26 Ranges - - 19 Studley Park, Phanerogams ,'"- Parrakeet, Notes on of - - 172 Warbling Grass - 132 Tasmanian Snakes, Notes Phanerogams of Studley ou. - - - 83 Park - - - 172 Victorian Birds - (i4-, 74 Phytography of Victoria Mammals - 12 Podopetallum - 5 Reptiles - >ii\ Platypus, ISToles on - 87 Snakes - 83 Plants from New Guinea 167 Warbling Grass Parrakeet, Procellarinse or Petrels, Notes on - - 1 32 Notes on • - - 176 Wasps, West Australian 8, 24 Protection of Native Birds 161 West Australian Wasps 8, 24 : : Vol. I. :^[o. 1. riAXlI.VliY 1>5.S-L 33ii:ti5i:i»n Usttntrtti^t THE JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE OF THE l^i©ldl Hatmralist^'^ ^Imh of YiotQwiu, co3sri?E]:srTS I'AgK 1 iitri)(luctioii ... ... ... ..... I rrocooLUiigs of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victm-ia The Orc1iidea\ ot' Victoria. By C. French. (First Paper) Coutriliatic:)iis to tlie Phytograpliy of Australia. By Baron- Sir F. von Mueller, K. CM. G., F.I\,.S. t^ ''_;, Eiiii.iUbj]o'i,-y ; Notes uu , . -"n'doptera of , Dr. T. p. Lucas .ESPONDENCE : Westeru Austra ^ . PRICE — SIX PFXCE J. C. MITCHELL, PB N ^•;].iEj.r. THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST mt'M^mwQ^i^^^M, It is now three years since tlie Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria was first formed. The club has supplied a want, and has steadily increased in numbers until over 150 members have been enrolled. Field work has been the main object of the Society, and the enlarged cabinets, and the exhibits at meetings, testify to the activity of members in this du-ection, while the number of careful observers of Nature in the colony has been greatly multiplied. Many who before worked alone have been encouraged by association with workers in kindred branches, and a substantial enthusiasm has been aroused in many who had before felt no interest in the subject. Hitherto the proceedings of the Society have appeared in the " Southern Science Record," published by Mr. J. Wing, but it is now deemed time to bring out a periodical of our own. It is hoped that a larger field of usefulness will thus be opened u]), and that both members and the public will gain by the publication of a monthly record of work and results, of original papers on Victorian Botany and Zoology, and of current notices of the occurrencas and habitat of interesting forms. " The Naturalist " is also intended as a medium for the exchange of specimens, and space will he given for correspondence. Lastly, the Club has decided to prepare, and to publish in this Magazine, scientific lists of the Victorian species of animals and plants for the use of collectors. Such lists cannot be considered to be complete even in the case of the most conspicuous and best- known groups. Additions may be made from time to time ; in fact, the very publication is expected to stimulate members to the discovery and recognition of new forms. Great care will be exercised to exclude all doubtful species, and as the services of some of the most active practical naturalists in the colony have been secured, it is confidently expected that the catalogues will be of value in creating that exact knowledge of specific forms which will facilitate more advanced Biological studies, and in diffusing an acquaintance with the useful and hurtful organisms of Victoria, which must be of great practical and material benefit to the community. TlIK VICTORIAls' NATCRAL19T FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. The usual looutlilj laeethig' of the Club i\-as held in the Royal S(K-ioty's Hall, on Monday evening, 21st inst.—Mr. T. A. F. Leith,. oue of the Vice-Presidents, presiding, and, considering th.e inclement weatlier that prevailed, tliere "was a very good attendance of members. CoimEsroNDEXCE.—From the Secretary of the Entomological Department of the Warren K'atiiral History Rooms, Wai-ren, Mass.,. L^.S., inviting i)iterchange of specimens. The Secretary to reply that, as the Club had no collection of its o-svn, it could not comply with the invitation, but would endeavour, to induce individual members to take up the matter. Members Elected.—Messrs. G. R. Hill, E. Shields, T. H. Ord, A. Borthwick, and Miss K. Coghill. Nominations for Membership.— Messrs. Clarence IIIcIcs and P. Cecchi. Papers Promised.—'' Victorian Orchids," part 4, by C. French; continuation of "Experiences of an Old Net," by Dr. T. P. Lucas;. and on a subject unnamed, by IT. Watts. The following paj)erswere read: — ByC. French, " A few Remarks- on a Curious Insect Phenomenon that Recently Occurred in his Specimen Room ;" by J. F. Bailey, on " A New Species of Gordius^ or Hair Worm." Over this paper considerable discussion took place, principally on the subject of the life-histories of ]>arasitie worms, the chief speakers being Messrs. Judd, Watts, J, F. Roberts, A. H. Lucas, and Dr. T. P. Lucas. Mr. Bailey mentiont-d that worms similar to the one shown and described by him ;had been found in the Yarra and the Yan Yean, and apprehended that fatality might arise to persons drinking these waters, and so absorb- ing the ova ; but it was pointed out th.it it had been proved unquestionably that there was not the slightest probability of danger. He also mentioned that it was on record that a very longhair-worm had been found in a small carabus beetle, and Mr. Judd stated that lie himself had taken one from the body of a spider. In the course , of the discussion, Mr. Watts alluded to, and denied, the general belief that infusoria existed in the Yan Yean, as he had thoroughly satisfied himsell' that they do not. The ftu-niation of a Postal j\Iicroscopical Society, similar to tlie one established in England, was advocated by Mr. Watts, who explained that the main object of the society was the transmission tlirough the post, from mendier to member, of mounted specimens for examination, and then ultimate return to a recoa:nised head THE VICTORIA^ NATURALIST 3 office. One of the boxes in use was shown by Mr. Watts, who stated that Dr. Morris, by whom it had been sent to him, desired to make it and the aecompanying specimens a present to the Club after jts return from Sydiiey. The general exhibition of specimens was an imusually ijiteresting one. It comprised six species of Indian Ocean moUusca, viz., Spondylus tenuispuiosus, S. auranteus, S. radians, Dolabella Eumphi and Umbella Indica, by J. F. Bailey ; forty Humming birds, including a pair of Acestoura Helioderii, from Columbia, this being the smallest known bird, also fine specimens in flower of Spiranthes australis, Dipodium punctatum, and Cryp- tostylis longifolia, three orchids from tlie Mount Eliza district, by C. French ; Birds' Eggs collected at Colac, also Sleeping Lizard from Daylesford, by T. Hyland ; specimens of large Owl and Whistling Eagle, viz., Hailiastur sphenurus and Atliene strenura, l)y T. A. F. Leith ; specimens of scrub from 300 miles north of Townsviile, Queensland, by J. E. Prince ; diseased and healthy leaves of the Coffee tree from Ceylon, by H. Watts : Kauri gum, ])y J. H. ISIatthias : Eggs of Argonauta tuberculata or Paper Nautilus, by J. H. Gatliff ; tliirty specimens of Coleoptera collected during tlie month, and specimens of Kilcunda coal, by F, G. A. Barnard ; Beetles, including a new Longicorn allied to the genus Plioracantha, collected during tlie month by 1), Best ; nest of Mason Spider from America, Hill Lepidoptera North by G. R. ; and Coleoptera collected since last meeting, also specimen of Polistes or Card-making Wasp and nest from Studley Park, by J. E.Dixon ; and box of exotic insects and orchid in flower, Cryptostylis longi- folia, by P. Dattari, who exhibited a diagram showing the relation- ships of the various families coming under the first section of the Coleoptera. After a very pleasant Conversazione, the meeting separated about ten o'clock. THE 0RCHIDEJ5 OF VICTORIA: Their Habitats, avith Cultural Notes. by g . french, botanic gardens, melbourne, (Part L—Read September 10th, 1883.) Mr. President a^d Gentlemen op the F. N. Club op A'lCTORIA Most of you are aware that some time since, I promised you a paper on the Terrestrial Orchids of this Colony.
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