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Identifier: victoriannatura851968luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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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 point.Darkness was falling rapidly, but as Icame directly underneath I saw thelarge white coin spots of the Dollar Bird.High 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
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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 assembled.Almost 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 coastal areas, on heathlands, i

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