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Contributions OneTree Hill Common Dunnart record, wildfire had burnt through the area in March 2006 1962. On 20 November 1988, Beardsell On 24/3/2006, staffand studentsfrom the (1997) carried out a detailed ten hectare School of Life and Physical Sciences, search ofdensetussocks on slopes directly RMIT University, visited One Tree Hill below the sitewhere theCommon Dunnart Reserve with Mr Campbell Beardsell of was foundon 24/3/2006. Duringthe search Parks Victoria, principally to study the two adult female Common Dunnarts were techniques and results ofecological burn- found, both with pouched young, one in a ing. Towards the end ofthe day. as we grass tussock and the other under discard- were about to conclude the visit, we edgalvanised iron. realised that thetrackleadingto the easiest Acknowledgements exit passed closely to one ofthe lines of psaovmeers.ofIttwheaspadveecrisdeadndtoesxphloawinthtehestruedaesnotns whMahabonisyteatthiaadtnekaOsnitteowCaTsaremteoBeHuaisrledlsceRloeln,scerPreavtreek.spaVRviicectrhosrairaad,s fortheirpresence in the reserve. When the Francis, formerly ofRMIT University, organ- second paver in the line was lifted, to our ised and supervisedthe layingofthepaversand surprise, a Common Dunnart was found numerous RMIT students helped carry the sheltering underthe paver. The animal was pavers down sleep slopes. The specimen men- tioned in this article was handled under the subsequently captured by hand (see cover terms of Research Permit No. 10002492 issued picture) and proved to be an adult male. by the Department of Sustainability and The dunnart was released hard against the Environment and by RMIT Animal Ethics entrance to the paver, but ran directly to CommitteeApprovalNo.315. the next paver in the line and disappeared References under it. It is interesting to note that the Atlas ofVictorian Wildlife, database. Department of area from which this record was obtained SustainabilityandEnvironment. was subjected to an ecological burn in BeFaardusneallla(n'd(1H9a9b7i)taTthSeiNgnEifRiOcaCncReepionrNto:rtSihteEsasotf March 2005, and ground cover in March Melbourne Dunmoochin Biological Surveys. , 2006, was particularlysparse. UnpublishedreporttoShireofNillumbik. Other records exist for the Common McDniksthroirbsuittoPn,WE(ceodl)og(y19a9n5)dMCoanmsmeravlastioonf.Vi(cOtxofroirad: Dunnart in this reserve which also involve UniversityPress:SouthMelbourne) the species using artificial habitat. On the 25/5/1968, the then Mammal Survey Group (now Fauna Survey Group) of the Peter Homan tFwNoCVcovmismiotend ODnunenaTrretes Htihlaltawnedrceapftouurnedd SchoolofLifeandPRhGMyPsIiOTcaBlUonSixcvie2er4nsc7iet6syV,. under discarded galvanised iron (FNCV Melbourne3001 unpubl. data). This was six years after email:[email protected] Flora and Fauna GuaranteeAct 1988 Final recommendations in regardto nominations forlisting underthe Floraand Fauna Guarantee Act 1988. The nominations forthe followingtaxato be listed as threatened are supportedbythe Scientific Advisory CommitteeJuly2006. MarshTree-moss Climacium dendroides Oval Wedge-fern Lindsaeatrichomanoides 318 The Victorian Naturalist