This specimen, caught at Point Cunningham on the North-west Coast, appears to agree with Edwards’ figure, and with the specimen preserved in the British Museum.  There is also one in the collection of the Linnean Society from Port Jackson.  Large flights of these animals were observed at Port Keats and in Cambridge Gulf, on the North-west Coast.  This bat seems also to be very abundant on the Friendly Islands, for Forster describes having seen five hundred hanging upon one casuarina tree.  Forster, page 187.

2.  Canis australiae.  Canis familiaris australasiae, Desmarest, Mamm. 191.  Australasian Dog, or Dingo, Shaw’s Zool. 1 278, t. 76.

This animal is common in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, and dogs, to all appearance of the same species, are found on all parts of the coast.  Captain King presented a living specimen to Sir Everard Home, Bart., who sent it to Exeter Change.

In considering this species as distinct from the common dog, I am supported by the opinion of Mr. William MacLeay*. (See Linnean Transactions 13.)

(Footnote.  No such opinon has been expressed by Mr. W. S. Macleay in the place alluded to.—­P.P.K. [added in “errata"])

Captain King informs me that these dogs never bark, in which particular they agree with the Linnean account of the American dog; that, in their appearance and cunning disposition, they resemble the fox; and although occasionally domesticated in New South Wales, they never lose the sly habits peculiar to their breed, nor can be prevented from killing poultry or biting sheep.

This dog, however, seems to be quite a distinct species from that found in the South Sea Islands, which Forster describes as being “of a singular race:  they mostly resemble the common cur, but have prodigious large heads, remarkably little eyes, prick ears, long hair, and a short bushy tail.  They are chiefly fed with fruit at the Society Isles; but in the Low Isles and New Zealand, where they are the only domestic animals, they live upon fish.  They are exceedingly stupid, and seldom or NEVER BARK, only howl now and then.”  Forster’s Observations, page 189.

3.  Otaria cinerea, Peron et Lesueur.  Voyage aux Terres Austral. ij. 75.

The head of a species, agreeing with the short description of Peron, was brought home by the expedition, but that it is the one intended by these authors, there is great room to doubt.  I am informed that specimens of Peron’s animal are in the Paris Museum, but Desmarest and Frederic Cuvier, who have both lately written upon seals, have only copied the very short specific character given by Peron.  The head of our specimen is gray, covered with rather short, rigid, hairs, and without any woolly fur.  The ears are short, conical.

It is very distinct from the Otaria Falklandica of Desmarest (the Phoca falklandica* of Shaw) by the want of the woolly substance under the hair (called fur by the seal-fishers) and by the length of the ear, which in the latter species, described by Shaw, is long and awl-shaped.