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species ; it is Highly probable that many more kinds of Kan- 

 garoos once existed, and that they have been exterminated by 

 the ferocious " Tigers" and " Devils" still plentiful in some of 

 the wild districts ; if so, their remains will tell whenever the 

 bone-caverns are explored. 



The monotremous section of the Implacentalia is represented 

 as in Australia by the well known Platypus, and by an Echidna 

 or Ant-eater which appears to differ from our own in nothing 

 but the shorter spines and more hairy fur. 



The birds observed amount to one hundred and sixty-two 

 species as follows : — 



CEDE E— E A P T O E E S . 



Family Falconid^. 



Aquila audax Eagle Hawk. 



Ichthyiattus Uucogaster White-bellied Sea Eagle. 



Fandion leucocejyhalus White -headed Osprey. 



Falco melanogenys Blacked- cheeked Falcon. 



Falco lunulatus White- fronted Falcon. 



leracidea berigora Brown Hawk. 



Astur novce hollandice New Hollaud Goshawk. 



Astur approximans Australian Goshawk. 



Accipiter torquatus Collared Sparrowhawk. 



Circles assimilis Allied Harrier. 



Family Steigidje. 



Strix castanops Chestnut-faced owl. 



Athene maculata Spotted Owl. 



O E D E E— I NSESSOEES. 

 Family Capeimulgid^. 



Mgotheles novce-liollandi(E Little Morepork. 



Fodargus cuvieri Morepork. 



Family Hikundinid^. 



Acanthylis caudacuta Spine-tailed Swallow. 



Hirundo frontalis Welcome Swallow. 



Collocalia arbor ea Tree Swallow. 



Family Alcedinid^. 

 Alcyone diemenensis Tasmanian Kingfisher. 



Family Artamid^. 

 Artamus sordidus Wood Swallow. 



