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yellow on the convex surface. The narrow band of red across 

 the lower part of the body has along the lower edge of it a 

 row of yellow spots. 



Figs. 13, 14- and 15, plate 16, are all on one sheet of 

 bark, 2 feet 3 inches long. Fig. 13 is probably that of the 

 O'Tidthorliynchiis, or else a large sleepy lizard. It is 14 inches long 

 and 3 wide. The figure is white, the margin of which is lined 

 with red. 



Fig. 14 is a turtle, 12 inches long and 8 wide ; the ground 

 -colour is white and the transverse markings and patch of spots 

 down the centre of the back are yellow and red. 



Fig. 15 is the figure of a frog, about 10 inches long; the 

 colour is white and faintly lined with red on the body. There are 

 five fingers represented on each of the arms ; on one of the 

 legs there are a crowd of toes represented, while the other 

 only has four. 



Fig. 16, plate 16. The figure of a long necked tortoise, 

 on a sheet of bark by itself ; the groundwork of the figure is 

 white, and the body is ornamented throughout with curved and 

 transverse red and yellow lines ; the neck is represented bent, 

 very long, and ornamented with longitudinal red and yellow 

 lines; the head is small, with eyes, represented by two red 

 spots ; the limbs are ornamented with a series of irregular trans- 

 verse and cross red and yellow lines. The length of the sheet 

 of bark on which this figure is drawn is 2 feet 6 inches long and 

 12 inches broad ; the figure itself is 1 foot 6 inches long and 6| 

 inches wide. 



Fig. 17, plate 16. The representation of a bird — I presume 

 that of a cassowary. It is on a sheet of bark, 14 inches 

 wide by two feet long ; the height of the figure is 1 foot 4 inches, 

 and the width from the head to the tail 12 inches. The figure 

 is white, margined by a thick red line ; the space between the 

 legs is yellow ; the eye and mouth are drawn as by one long 

 rather broad red line ; another oval red patch represents the 

 craw, and a smaller one the anus ; there are also two rounded 

 spots of red at the knee joints, and a broad long patch from 

 the knee to the foot. 



