se  pean Rabbit. The native Burdit also burrows in the 
362 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
hood of the Avon to feed on the seeds of the Blackboy and 
flowers of the Red-Gum; the natives tell us they breed in the 
tops of a very high species of Eucalyptus which they call 
Mallert, and which grows a day or two's journey to the east - 
of where we were: the black Cockatoo, with red bars across 
the tail, is reported by them to breed in the same tree. My son - 
shot a species of blue-bird which we had not seen before, it 
has broad white bars across the middle of the wings; we saw- 
only one cock bird followed by eight or nine hens, itis rather - 
smaller than the common blue-bird. The Xanthorrhea, - 
which I call the York blackboy, grows sparingly in this dis- - 
trict on the tops of the hills; its flower-stalk is only about - 
half the length of the common species, the leaves are Very - 
- glaucous, and so tough that they can with difficulty be broken 
off by the hand; it grows from twenty to thirty feet high | 
without a branch. gue 
Among these vallies and ironstone hills, I met with two 
Dryandras, new to me—a Petrophila, two Hakeas, three Gre 
villeas, and a Synaphea, which I had not seen before; but 
few of them were yet in flower. A curious downy-leaved - 
plant like a Stachys was coming into bloom. Another 1m- 
dividual of the same genus grows at the foot of the hills, 
‘Fresh water is scarce on Guangan, even in this our rainy 
season ; it is an undulating country, the hills generally small 
-and low, the soil on them a stony clay, they produce bs 
Eucalypti. The vallies between these hills are generally oS 
extensive. and sandy, covered thinly ‘with small shrubs. 
Kangaroos of the large species, the males when full-grown 
weighing 100 lbs. and upwards, are seen in hundreds on these 
sandy plains. We have nine species of Kangaroo at Swan 
River. The animal called Dolgitch by the natives, evidently 
2A species of Kangaroo, burrows in the ground, and, except 
in its tail, has a good deal the appearance of the Eee 
-òr lives in holes in the rocks. Our dogs caught a sm 
D _ kind Kangaroo, C with a horny substance like a claw 
.. the point of its tail; the natives call them manang, and $° 
