Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1.

Plan of encampment in the interior.

Young weeping eucalyptus, from nature.

General map of the exploratory routes, with sections of the rivers, and A
plan of the mouth of the river Glenelg; the whole being compiled by the
author from actual surveys made under his own direction, or by himself.

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SYSTEMATICAL LIST OF ANIMALS COLLECTED DURING THE SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS, AND DEPOSITED IN THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM AT SYDNEY.

Mammals.

1.  Rhinolophus megaphyllus.  Gray.

2.  Petaurus leucogaster.  Mitch. (New Species.) From the banks of the Murray.

3.  Phalangista xanthopus.  Ogilby.  From Rifle range, near the Glenelg.

4.  Choeropus ecaudatus.  Ogilby. (New Species.) Volume 2 page 131.  From forest near the Murray.

5.  Myrmecobius ? rufus.  Mitch. (New Species.)*

(Footnote.  This was called the red shrew mouse by the men composing the party, but as no species of the Insectivora of Zoologista has hitherto been discovered in Australia, it more probably belongs to the genus Myrmecobius, recently described by Mr. Waterhouse.  I venture to name this animal with considerable hesitation, having neglected to take a note of the generic characters, while the specimen was yet within my reach.  If it be a true Sorex, its discovery will be as interesting to Zoologists as that of the Dipus, neither genus having been hitherto suspected to exist in Australia.)

6.  Dipus mitchellii.  Ogilby. (New Species.) Volume 2 page 144.  From reedy plains, near the Murray.

7.  Conilurus constructor.  Ogilby. (New Species.) Volume 1 page 308.  From the scrubs near the Darling.  The rabbit-rat of the colonists.

8.  Mus platurus.  Mitch. (New Species.) From the river Darling.

9.  Mus hovellii.  Mitch. (New Species.) From near the Bayunga, and named in honour of the discoverer of that river.

Birds.

1.  Falcunculus leucogaster ? aut Frontalis?  Black-crested shrike, from the banks of the Murray.

2.  Falcunculus flavigulus ?  Brown-crested shrike, from the Lower Bogan.

3.  Cracticus tibicen.  Vieill.

4.  Fregillus leucopterus.  Vig. and Horsf.

5.  Merops melanurus.  Vig. and Horsf.

6.  Pomatorhinus temporalis.  Horsf.

7.  Malurus leucopterus.  Vig. and Horsf.

8.  Fringilla castanotis.

9.  Musicapa goodenovii.  Vig. and Horsf.

10.  Anthus rufescens.  Vig. and Horsf.

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