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INDEX 



Remarkable, Mount, a bare rock of 

 precipitous elevation, 103 ; visible 

 nearly sixty miles, 103 ; terminable 

 outpost of Flindei's Range, 103 ; 

 seared with rugged ravines, 103 ; 

 height of, 105 ; often enveloped in 

 clouds and capped with snow, 105 



Rhinodon typicus, 120 



Rhinolophus megaphyllus. See Leaf- 

 nosed bat 



Rhipidura molaclllotdes, 82 



Rhynchus australls, 215 



Ringia aus trails. See Grass-tree 



Riverine district, 19 ; rainfall, 19-20 



Rivers and streams, 3, 58-59 ; current- 

 less, 20 ; the Darling, general descrip- 

 tion, 42-44 ; scarce on slopes of Mount 

 Kosciusko, 58-59; many run into Lake 

 Eyre, 108-109 ; high banks of desert 

 stream, 167 ; remarkable holes in beds 

 of, 174 ; fish in river holes, 173 ; dry 

 beds of in Swan River desert, 185 ; 

 have short courses in Port Darwin 

 district, 228 ; head-waters of Adelaide, 

 230 ; low-banked and deep in Port 

 Darwin district, 241-242 



Rocks, remarkable masses in Victoria, 

 68 ; fantastic shapes on Flinder's 

 Range, 104 ; the Cathedral Rock near 

 Quorn, inaccessible pinnacles, 104 ; 

 rocks covered with beautiful mosses, 

 104 ; " sheep rocks " in Port Darwin 

 district, 242 ; huge one in Queens- 

 land, 265 



Rock-wallaby. See Wallaby 



Rosella, or Rose Hill, parrot. See 

 Paroquet 



Salt, beautifully white on surface of 



Lake Torrens, 107 ; dry pans of in 



Austin's Marsh, 191 

 Salt-bush scrub, much still left near 



Adelaide, 96 ; in flower near Lake 



Torrens, III 

 Salt lakes, in desert of interior, Swan 



River, 162 ; one 2 miles wide, 191 

 Sand flies, a great nuisance at head of 



Australian Bight, 121 

 Sand-ridges, near Flinder's Range, 1 10- 



Iii ; at head of Australian Bight, 12 1 ; 



covered with spinifex beyond Swan 



River, 16 1 ; covered with thorn 



bushes, 193 

 Scarlet lory, seen frequently at Fern- 



shaw, 90 

 SciiFfia aquila, the common meagre, 155 

 Scrub, near Adelaide, 96 ; mallee-scrub, 



description of, 97-98 ; dense on high 



bank of river, 181 ; cane-scrub in 



Swan River desert, 182 ; impassable 

 near Port Darwin, 228 ; gigantic 

 nettle in Queensland, 263 

 Seal, fur, formerly abundant in Bass's 

 Strait, 1 34 ; exterminated by Straits- 

 men, 134 ; not found on S.-W. coast, 



134 ; formerly on all parts of coasts 

 of Victoria and New South Wales, 



135 

 Seal, hair, formerly found in Bass's 

 Strait, 134; a western species, 134; 

 reported in the Bight, 134; still 

 lingers in King George's Sound, 



135 ; formerly on all parts of coasts 

 of Victoria and New South Wales, 



135. 

 Seps, lizard. See Jumping-snake 

 Shark, large basking-shark in Australian 

 Bight, 120 ; numerous and dangerous 

 in King George's Sound, 155 ; very 

 large one at Abrolhos, 204 ; accom- 

 panied by pilot-fish, 203-204; monsters 

 unknown to science, 205 ; on Great 

 Barrier Reef, 303 ; eggs of, 303, 312 ; 

 afraid of man in diver's dress, 309 ; 

 Barrier Reef favourite breeding-place, 



313 

 Sheep, immense flocks of in Victoria, 

 75 ; seeds imported in wool of merino, 



Shooting, destructive, 6, 33, 135, 147 ; 

 parrot, 8 ; wallaby, 37, 105 ; emu 

 wantonly shot, 147 ; ducks for a 

 living at Albany, 153 



Shrike tit. pretty tricks of one at head 

 of Bight, 121 ; description of, (21-122; 

 habits of, 122 ; great strength of the 

 bird, 122 ; has a noisy note, 122 ; 

 courageous and tame, 122 ; feed on 

 insects, 122 



Snake, see Diamond-snake ; black, 

 188 ; captures frog, 188 ; poisonous, 

 192 ; few accidents from, 202 ; native 

 names for, 202 ; aborigines capture 

 and eat, 202-203 ; very abundant in 

 Queensland, 264 



Snow, 1 1 ; not uncommon, 1 1 ; on highest 

 summits of Australian Alps a few 

 months each year, 59 ; often on 

 summit of Mount Remarkable, 105 



Sparlda?, sea-bream at Abrolhos Islands, 

 2)3 



Sparrow, English, swarms in parts of 

 Victoria, 75 ; established in Adelaide 

 and Buna districts, 94 



Species of animals very sharply defined, 

 as regards distribution, on certain 

 parts of continent, 142 ; absence of 

 natural barriers to migration of, 148 ; 



