PE.EFACE. 



It having been considered desk-able to ascertain accurately the 

 natural productions of the Colony of Victoi-ia, and to publish works 



ERRATUM. 



Pages 1, and 12, and on Contents of Decades, /o. " LYMNODYNASTES " read " LIMNODYNASTES .■ 



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or indigenous members of the different classes of the animal kingdom. 

 As the Fauna is not so well known as the Flora, it was a necessary 

 preliminary to the publication to have a large number of drawings 

 made, as opportunity arose, from the hving or fresh examples of 

 many species of reptiles, fish, and the lower animals, which lose their 

 natural appearance shortly after death, and the true characters of 

 many of which were consequently as yet unknown, as they had 

 only been descriljed from preserved specunens. A Proch-omus, or 

 preluninary issue, in the form of Decades, or numbers of ten plates, 

 each with its complete descriptive letterpress, will be published, of 



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