LIST OF 

 WHOLE PAGE, COLLOTYPE, ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATE. FACING PAGE 



I. NATIVES or KING'S SOUND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, WITH CHARACTERISTIC RAFT. 



GLASS AND QUARTZ SPEAR HEADS... ... ... ... ... 8 



II. FESTIVE DANCE, OR " CORROBOREE," OF NATIVES OF ROEBUCK BAY, WESTERN 



AUSTRALIA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 15 



III. THE DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, AND SPINY ANT-EATER, 



Echidna aculeata ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 



IV. AUSTRALIAN BEARS, Phascolarctos cinereus, AND FLYING PHALANGER, Petauroides 



volans ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 



V. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BAOBAB OR BOTTLE-TREE, Adansonia rupestris ... 37 



VI. AUSTRALIAN " MORE-PORKS " OR FERN-OWLS, Podargus strigoides. $ AND 9 ... 42 



VII. AUSTRALIAN "MORE-PORK." MALE BIRD ... ... ... ... 44 



VIII. AND IX. AUSTRALIAN " MORE-PORKS." ILLUSTRATING PROTEAN ASPECTS ASSUMED UNDER Between 



VARYING EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES ... ... ... ... ... 46 and 47 



X. AUSTRALIAN "MORE-PORKS." RAIN-BATH MAN<EUVRES ... ... ... 50 



XI. "INNOCENTS ABROAD"; YOUNG AUSTRALIAN PELICANS ... ... ... 67 



XII. THE FRILLED LIZARD, Chlamydosaurus Kingi. BIPEDAL RUNNING ATTITUDES 



ILLUSTRATED BY INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS ... ... ... 74 



XIII. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SPINOUS LIZARDS, Moloch horridus. $ AND 9 ... 83 



XIV. SPINE-TAILED LIZARDS, Egernia Stokesii, AND LACE LIZARD, Varanus varius ... 93 



XV. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS (TERMITES), MERIDIAN VARIETY, LAURA VALLEY, 



NORTH QUEENSLAND ... ... ... ... ... ... 101 



XVI. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, KIMBERLEY TYPE, DERBY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 105 



XVII. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, KIMBERLEY TYPE, DERBY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 108 



XVIII. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, KIMBERLEY TYPE, INCLUDING SECTION ... 114 



XIX. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, KIMBERLEY TYPE, ILLUSTRATING ABNORMAL 



SHAPES AND PHASES OF RECONSTRUCTION ... ... ... ... 119 



XX. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, MERIDIAN VARIETY, LAURA VALLEY, NORTH 



QUEENSLAND ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 122 



XXI. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS, MERIDIAN VARIETY, PORT DARWIN, NORTHERN 



TERRITORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ... ... ... ... ... 124 



XXII. NEST MOUNDS OF WHITE ANTS : A. COLUMNAR TYPE, PORT DARWIN ; B. OVATE 



TERMITE MOUND, WITH NEST BURROW OF Tanysiptera sylvia ; c. SMALL 



EXTRA-TROPICAL TERMITE MOUND, WITH NEST BURROW OF PoSCphotUS 



pulc.herrimus ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 128 



