The Victorian naturalist . led in for the night at thecamping park at Yea. It is a pleasantspot, in a bend of the river, and thereare always birds to be seen and heardalong the watercourses. At dusk, there was a disturbance in thebird world with strange and alien soundsamong familiar voices. I hurried downto the creek along a little cattle track(with one eye on the ground in case ofnight wandering snakes), and just abovethe tops of the tall red gums on theflat, a big black bird outlined againstthe sky, was flying in a roughly circularcourse returning always to one was falling ra
The Victorian naturalist . led in for the night at thecamping park at Yea. It is a pleasantspot, in a bend of the river, and thereare always birds to be seen and heardalong the watercourses. At dusk, there was a disturbance in thebird world with strange and alien soundsamong familiar voices. I hurried downto the creek along a little cattle track(with one eye on the ground in case ofnight wandering snakes), and just abovethe tops of the tall red gums on theflat, a big black bird outlined againstthe sky, was flying in a roughly circularcourse returning always to one was falling rapidly, but as Icame directly underneath I saw thelarge white coin spots of the Dollar up the trunk of the tree was oneof those huge curls that sometimes oc-cur on certain gums. From the centreof it a limb had rotted out, leaving adark hole. Regularly, on every circuit,the Dollar Bird paused at this hole and 292 Vict. Nat.—Vol. 85 Supplement to the Victorian Naturalist, September, 1968 AUSTRALIAN FLORA IN COLOUR. Supplement to the Victorian Naturalist, September, 1968 AUSTRALIAN FLORA IN COLOUR FLOWERS and PLANTSof VICTORIA This book with its 543 colour illustrations fills a gap that has existedfor many years in Australian books of flora. No comprehensive colourfulguide to the Victorian flowers and plants has previously been one-fifth of all the native plants occurring in the state areillustrated in full colour, and each illustration is accompanied by adescriptive caption. The captions give the common and scientific names, the floweringtimes and the characteristics of the plants. They are further supportedin chapters that describe the general grouping of the plants and theenvironment in which they live. Cross references from the text to theplates, and the extensive index make the book an invaluable field guide. The illustrated plants are grouped in sections according to their mostcommonly occurring habitats. Thus plants most likely to be foundin coas
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