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ral character of the vegetation, especially of the extensive sterile 

 regions, very nearly resembles that of the heads of the two great 

 inlets of the south coast, particularly that of Spencer's Gulf, the same 

 or a still greater diminution of the characteristic tribes of the general 

 Australian flora being observable. Of these characteristic tribes, 

 hardly any considerable proportion is found, except oi Eucalyptus, and 

 even that genus seems to be much reduced in the number of species ; 

 of the leafless Acacice, which appear to exist in nearly their usual 

 proportion ; and of Callitris and Casuarina. The extensive families 

 of Epacridece, Stylidece, RestiacecB, and the tribe of Decandrous Papi- 

 Uonacecc, hardly exist, and the still more characteristic and extensive 

 family of Proteacece is reduced to a few species of Grevillea, Hakea, 

 and Persoonia. 



" Nor are there any extensive families peculiar to these regions ; 

 the only characteristic tribes being that small section of aphyllous, or 

 nearly aphyllous Cassia, which I have particularly adverted to in my 

 account of some of the species belonging to Captain Sturt's collec- 

 tion, and several genera of Myoporinee, particularly Eremophila and 

 Stenochilus. Both these tribes appear to be confined to the interior, 

 or to the two great gulfs of the south coast, which may be termed the 

 outlets or direct continuation of the southern interior; several of the 

 species observed at the head of Spencer's Gulf also existing in nearly 

 the same meridian, several degrees to the northward. It is not a 

 little remarkable that nearly the same general character of vegetation 

 appears to exist in the sterile islands of Dampier's Archipelago, on the 

 north-west coast, where even some of the species which probably 

 exist through the whole of the southern interior are found ; of these 

 the most striking instances are, Clianthus Dampieri and Jasminum 

 lineare, and to establish this extensive range of these two species was 

 my object in entering so minutely into their history in the preceding 

 account. 



" A still greater reduction of the peculiarities of New Holland 

 vegetation takes place in the islands of the south coast." 



Of zoological productions, as far as birds are concerned, Mr. Gould 

 informed Captain Sturt that the Cinclosoma cinnamomeus , Gould, 

 beautifully figured by Messrs. Gould and Richter in vol. ii., was the 

 only new one found during his expedition ; but the Captain evidently, 

 though a close observer and accurate recorder of the habits of ani- 

 mals, had no facilities, in the usually desert tracts he passed over, to 

 preserve skins and specimens, except of plants, easily brought within 

 a few sheets of paper : where shrubs are found there will be birds, 

 and where plants and animals can live many insects will find a home ; 

 we should like to see some of the insect inhabitants of the regions 

 Captain Sturt passed through. 



The figures of the Milvus affinis, and the truly exquisite plate of 

 Pigeons, and also that of the Mus conditor, convince us that if Mr. 

 Gould, like Mr. Audubon, were to publish, in parts, a reduced size 

 (say largish octavo) of such works as his truly national Birds of 

 Europe and Birds of Australia, such a series of volumes would find 

 an entrance where his larger works could never be seen : the co- 



