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 

 eggs, 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. See 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 galerita^ 50, 213, 272 



Cacatua leadheateri^ 90, 213 



Cacaiua roseicapilla^ 50, 214, 272 



Cacatua sanguinea^ 272 



Callopsittacus novce hollandice, 50, 214 



Calyptorhynchus banksi^ 50 



Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus^ 213 



Canis deccanensis. See Dingo 



Canis dingo. See Dingo 



Canis 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 

 Carchartas 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 

 Celenierates^ 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, 210 

 Cestracion philippic 313 

 Chcetodon^ family of fishes abundant in 



Australian Bight, 125 

 Charadius helveticus^ 217 

 Chelodina oblonga, 209. See Tortoise 

 Che lone imbricaia, 316 

 Chelone mydas^ 316 

 Cherry, native, 263-269 

 Chinese, in thousands at Port Darwin, 



