60 Bibliographical Notices. 
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 of Hucalyptus, and 
even that genus seems to be much reduced in the number of species ; 
of the leafless Acacie, which appear to exist in nearly their usual 
proportion ; and of Callitris and Casuarina. The extensive families 
of Epacridee, Stylidee, Restiacee, and the tribe of Decandrous Papi- 
lionacee, hardly exist, and the still more characteristic and extensive 
family of Proteacee is reduced to a few species of Grevillen; 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 Cassie, 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 Myoporine, particularly Hremophila 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 nota 
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- 
