342 



INDEX 



Captain Owen Stanley's, Stuart's, and 

 Beagle 's, 225 ; those which in desert 

 languish, fine trees at Port Darwin, 

 226 ; abundant in Port Darwin dis- 

 trict, 234 ; in Queensland, 263, 269, 

 270 



Trichoglossus novce hollandice, 9. See 

 Swainson's loriquet 



Trichosurus vulpecula, 62 



Tube-nosed bat, 222-223 ; seems to be 

 scarce in Westralia, but is abundant 

 in Queensland, 222 ; nocturnal in 

 habit, 222 ; a fruit-eater, 222 ; the 

 tube's sensitive organs, 222 ; differs 

 in cry and habits from all other fruit- 

 bats, 223 



Turtle, species found on Barrier Reef, 

 316 ; unknown species or hybrid, 316; 

 enormous leathery turtle, 317; differ- 

 ent foods of the turtle, 317 ; weights 

 of various turtles, 317 



Uroa'elus audax, 16. See Eagles 



Valleys, enclosed, 2, 4, 5, 6 ; difficult 



of entrance, 5 

 Vanessa poly chlorus, 83 

 Varanus salvator. See Iguana 

 Vegetation, 4 ; on Mount Kosciusko, 

 54 ; in Fernshaw gum-tree forests, 

 88 ; in mallee-scrub, 97-98 ; ground 

 covered with near Lake Torrens, 1 1 1 ; 

 near head of Australian Bight, 116- 

 117, 118, 123; about King George's 

 Sound, 142 ; influence on climate of 

 King George's Sound, 149 ; at Ab- 

 rolhos Islands, 207 ; in the Swan 

 River and Champion Bay district, 

 211-212 ; scrub and groves of trees 

 at Port Darwin, 225, 228 ; luxuriant 

 in Queensland, 265 

 Vesperugo abramus, 245. See Bats 

 Victoria, colony, greater variety of 

 fauna than any other part of same 

 area, 67; homesteads thickly scattered 

 over colony, 68 ; general appearance 

 of country, 67-68; English -like 

 orchards, hedges, etc, 74-75 ; im- 

 ported animals and birds, 75 ; well 

 watered and grassed, 75-76; immense 

 flocks of sheep, 75 ; the country of 

 the "wool-kings," 75 



Waddy, 292 



Wallaby, 6 ; numerous in Riverine, 30 ; 

 black-tailed wallaby, size, and weight, 

 37 ; size and weight, padamelon 

 wallaby, 37 ; size and weight, hare- 

 wallaby, 37 ; wallaby-shooting good 



sport, 37 ; size of mobs or droves, 

 38 ; all good for food, 38 ; on lower 

 slopes of Mount Kosciusko 59 ; 

 favourite lurking-place of rock- 

 wallaby, 68 ; rock-wallaby in Victoria, 

 69 ; hare-wallaby a common species 

 in Victoria, 69 ; description of, 69 ; 

 throwing away young, 69 ; remark- 

 able spur-tailed, 69-70 ; apparently 

 a curious weapon, 70 ; description 

 and habits in captivity of spur- 

 tailed, 70 ; good rock-wallaby shoot- 

 ing in Flinder's Range, 105 ; banded 

 wallaby, 1 51 ; peculiar habits of, 1 51 ; 

 hare-wallaby in Swan River district, 

 163-164 ; short-tailed wallaby, 164 



Warren-root, 211 ; grounds, 277 



Warryta, a magnificent scarlet flower, 

 100 ; wantonly destroyed and in 

 danger of extinction, 100 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 100 



Water, scarcity of, in Riverine, 31 ; 

 digging for, 31, 99, 108, 109-110, 

 162, 163, 191 ; billabung, 42 ; scarce 

 about Mount Kosciusko, 58-59 ; 

 mallee-scrub a sign of the presence 

 of, 98 ; salt or brackish at Lake 

 Torrens, 108 ; better to dig than 

 search for, 109-110; scarce and 

 brackish at head of Australian Bight, 

 117 ; \ery scarce at head of Bight, 

 121 ; salt and bitter in Swan River 

 desert, 162 ; want of, in desert of 

 interior, 165 ; surface pools after 

 storm, 165-166 ; in some rivers pro- 

 bably runs underground, 174 ; in 

 mud-beds, 193 ; remarkable spring 

 at Abrolhos Islands, 206 ; scarce in 

 Queensland, 263-264 



Waterfalls. See Cascades 



Water-lily, stream covered with, in 

 Port Darwin district, 250 



Water-monitor. See Iguana 



Water-rat, prehistoric, six feet long, 



323 



Wattle-trees, beauty and perfection of, 

 at Fernshaw, 89 



Wells, a hundred feet deep, 31 ; in 

 mallee-scrub, 99 ; artesian, in Ninety- 

 Mile Desert, 99-100 ; hints for digg- 

 ing, 109-110; wise to dig for in 

 times of peril, 109-110; no water in, 

 at head of Bight, 121 ; to supply 

 cattle in Swan River desert, 162 ; 

 aborigines cannot dig deep, 164 ; 

 native, filled by rain, 166 ; riveted 

 with bushes to support weight of 

 cattle, 167 ; at depth of eight feet in 

 desert, 191 ; very remarkable fresh- 



