Part 26 (1/2)

The anier ears and its hind feet are disproportioned to the fore feet It was not found beyond latitude 30 degrees See page 120, Vol I

7 ACROBATES PYGMAEA--Flying Opossum Mouse

This beautiful and delicate little animal was killed in a Box tree, whence it ca a branch, retreating again with great swiftness It was so sht it could not have been seen It is somewhat less than a mouse in size and has a tail like an e of a dark brown

8 LAGORCHESTES FASCIATUS (L ALBIPILIS, GOULD?)--Fasciated Kangaroo

One only of this animal was seen on the plains of the interior It is peculiar in its habits, in that it lies in open ground and springs fro with extre short round upon its pursuers to avoid theorchestes is very common on the plains to the north of Gawler Town, but is so swift as generally to elude the dogs It is reatly disproportioned, as all the Kangaroo tribe are, as regards the hind and fore quarters In colour this anirey, crossed with dark coloured bars on the back

9 PHALANGISTA VULPINA--The Opossu, only one of these ani the Expedition; it was in one of the gust its branches, when the quick eye of Taenerally to inhabit the NW interior

The present was a very large specimen, with a beautifully soft skin, and as it was the only one noticed during a residence of nearly six months at the same place, it was in all probability a stray animal

10 VESPERTILIO--Little black Bat

This diminutive little aniht It is not common in that locality, or any other that we noticed It was of a deep black in colour and had smaller ears than usual

BIRDS

I have observed that a principal reason I had for supposing that there was either an inland sea, a desert country, or both in the interior, was fro several expeditions, and in South Australia, of the ration of certain of the feathered tribes to the sa 144, I observed the 138, to the north Seeing, on prolonging these two lines, that they would pass over a great portion of the interior before they ree beyond the tropic, I concluded that the nature of the intervening country was not such as they could inhabit, and that the first available land would be where the two lines thus met It so happened that at the Depot, in lat 29 1/2 and in long 142, I was in the direct line ofour stay at that lonely post, itnessed the h not of all This was more particularly the case with the water-birds, as ducks, bitterns, pelicans, corenerally heard the over our heads from NW to SE or vice versu; but we never afterwards found any waters which we could suppose those birds could frequent in the distant interior On Strzelecki's Creek a sulls were seen, but beyond these we had no reason to anticipate the existence of inland water fro we noticed as to the feathered races On our first arrival at the Depot there was a bittern, Ardetta flavicollis, that frequented the creek in considerable numbers This bird was black and white, with a speckled breast and neck Every evening at dusk they would fly,a hoarse noise, to the water at the botto, but as winter advanced they left us, and went to the NW

About February and the beginning of March, the Epthianura tricolor and E

aurifrons, and some of the Parrot tribe, collected in thousands on the creeks, preparatory to one It was their wont to fly up and down the creeks, uttering loud cries, and collecting in vast numbers, but suddenly they would disappear, and leave the places which had rung with their wild notes as silent as the desert The Eupheans then passed us, with several other kinds of birds, but some of them remained, as did also the Euphema Bourkii, which the reader will find more particularly noticed under its proper head

The range of the Speckled Dove (Geopelia cuneata), so co, extended to the Depot, and two re the winter, and roosted two or three times on the tent ropes over my fire

There were always an iration, and living on the s st thes would hardly descend to water, and several of the Euphema came to the creek in the dark, e could not see to fire at theainst our tent ropes

The range of the Rose cockatoo was right across the continent as far as ent--as well as that of the Crested Parroquet, which was, as I have observed, the last bird , just before Mr Browne and I turned houinea, Gould, succeeded the Sulphur Crested cockatoo to the ard of the Barrier Range, and was in flocks of thousands on Evelyn's Plains, near the Depot, but I arated It is reh nu, was never seen near the Depot, or to the ard of the Barrier Range

The Aer of good, was met with in every part of the interior--where there ater--and frequently at such vast distances fro, I suppose, that vast nueons in their proper place, and statedus; and I would refer my reader to my remarks on that head: he will find their habits and localities fully described there

We fell in with the water-hen, Tribonyx, on one of the creeks on our journey to Lake Torrens, and again on Strzelecki's Creek, apparentlythe banks likefowls, as they did in the located districts of Adelaide, as described by Mr Gould, and that too in great nu to the south

In likesouthwards in May Froreat line taken by the feathered tribes infrom the southern or southeastern parts of the province is in a direction between the east and south points of the coree to the north of the Tropic, and about the meridian of 138, a more fertile country than any hitherto discovered will be found

It may be necessary for ust, we observed numerous Caloderae, and other smaller birds in the brushes, apparently on the move whilst there ater for theain see these birds until we had passed the Stony Desert and entered the box-tree forest to the north of it, in which was the creek with the huge native well There a variety of birds had congregated--the Rose cockatoo, the piping Magpie, the Calodera, various parrots and parroquets, bronze-wing Pigeons, and numerous small birds

At Cawndilla, Mr Poole shot a Euphema splendida, Gould It was in coain seen until we passed the 26th parallel, in Septe fro the expedition

1 AQUILA FUCOSA, CUVIER--The Wedge-tailed Eagle

Two of these birds frequented the Depot Glen, in 29 degrees 40 rees, one of which was secured They generally rested on a high pointed rock, whence their glance extended over the whole country, and it was only by accident that the above specimen was killed