INDEX 



331 



Bonitos, abundant in Australian Bight, 

 125 ; on Great Barrier Reef, 313 



Boomerang, 289-291 



Bottle-tree, curious appearance of, 263 ; 

 a species of gouty-stem, 263 



Bowen, climate, 301 ; lassitude pre- 

 vailing at, 301 



Bower-bird, playhouses of, in the Port 

 Darwin district, 255 ; nearly a dozen 

 species of, in Australia, 255 ; few in 

 the south of the continent, 255 ; play- 

 houses quite distinct from nests, and 

 apparently assembly places for amuse- 

 ment, 255-256 ; description of play- 

 houses, 256-257 ; antics of birds at 

 them, 257 ; articles found in them, 



257 



Brent-goose, Australian, size of a hen, 

 219 ; goes in small flocks, 219 ; 

 haunts and habits of, 219 ; found on 

 cultivated ground, 219 ; modification 

 of habits with enclosure of land notice- 

 able in this and other birds, 219 



Brush-turkey, size of the megapode, 

 175; curious mound-nests of, 175; 

 prefer running to flying, 176 ; sizes 

 of the mound-nests, 176 ; materials 

 of nest in the making actually grasped 

 in claws of bird, 176 ; can throw 

 grass, etc., to top of mound, 176; 

 disposition of eggs in mound, 176 ; 

 full description of nest-mounds and 

 e gg s i 177-180 ; destruction of eggs 

 by colonists and aborigines, 179 

 chicks hatched fully developed, 178 

 180 ; habits of species differ, 177 

 curious attitude when alarmed, 180 

 nearly always scratching, 180 ; poor 

 flyers, 180 ; hen-like habits, 180 

 food of western species, and of eastern 

 181 ; calls and notes, 181 



Bunya-pine, enormous cones of, 269 

 protected by colonial government 

 270 ; cockatoos eat seeds of cone, 273 



Burra-Burra, mines and district, 92-93 

 remarkable copper out-crop, 92-93 

 originally a back-country sheep-run 

 92 ; discovery by convict-shepherds 

 92 ; mines soon exhausted, 93 ; gold- 

 rush of Cornish miners, 93 ; strange 

 collective city, 93 



Bush. Set Scrub, salt-bush scrub, and 

 mallee-scrub 



Bustard, weight of, 35 ; habits, 35 ; 

 difficult of approach, 35 ; food, 35 : 

 nesting, 35 ; protective colouring of 

 bird and eggs, 35 ; northern variety 

 darker coloured, 276 ; probably a 

 variety of Eupodotis edwardsi, 276 



Bustard-quail, 217. See Painted quail 

 Butterflies, list of probably imported 

 species, 83 



Cacatua galertta, 50, 213, 272 



Cacatua leadheateri, 90, 213 



Cacatua roseicapitla, 50, 214, 272 



Cacatua sanguinea, 272 



Callopsittacus nova? hollandia?, 50, 214 



Calyptorhynchus banksi, 50 



Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus, 213 



Cants deccanensis. See Dingo 



Cants dtngo. See Dingo 



Cams rutilans. See Dingo 



Capital, necessary to prosperity in 



Australia, 140 ; remarks on large and 



small farmers, 141 

 Captive animals, never in a perfect 



state of health, 178 

 Carcharias glaucus, 313 

 Carnivorous mammals on the Australian 



continent small but exceedingly 



fierce, 196-197 

 Carrion crows, rook-like call of, 31 ; 



charged with attacking animals and 



dying men, 32 ; food of, 32 

 Cascades, 5 ; few on Mount Kosciusko, 



58-59 '■> general characteristics of 



Australian, 59 ; depend on winter 



rains, 59 

 Cassowary, distribution in Australia, 



274 ; comparison with the emu, 274 ; 

 a more intelligent bird, 274 ; as 

 pets show a marked attachment, 274 ; 

 not gregarious, 274 ; not so prolific 

 as emu, 274 ; eggs similar to those 

 of emu, 275 ; young captured in pit- 

 falls, 275 ; not a forest haunting bird, 



275 ; food of, 275 ; habit of rolling 

 in dust, 275 ; in danger of extermina- 

 tion, 276 



Casuarinas, at King George's Sound, 

 1 50 ; at Swan River very poor trees, 



159 

 Celenlerates, on Great Barrier Reef, 304 



Celery-pine, remarkable tree in Adelaide 



district, 96 ; telegraph poles made of 



its wood, 96-97 

 Centipede, large springing, 210; 



apparently unknown to science, 2IO 

 Cestracion phihppi y 313 

 ChcFtodon, family of fishes abundant in 



Australian Bight, 125 

 Charadius h/lveticus, 21 J 

 Chelodma oblonga, 209. See Tortoise 

 Che-lone imbricata, 316 

 Chelone my das, 316 

 Cherry, native, 263-269 

 Chinese, in thousands at Port Darwin, 



