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CHAPTEE Y. 



PAGE 



The North Island of New Zealand A Drive on the Beach 

 Beautiful Shells A Wreck Wanganui Fossils Among 

 the Maoris A Cool Reception at the Thames Gold Fields 

 Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire 89-98 



CHAPTER VI. 



To Australia and a Trip to Panton Hill and the Plenty Ranges 



Giant Kingfishers Parrots Beautiful Beetles Pouched 

 Bears Collecting on the Yara River The Duckbill Platypus 



Song of the Lyre-Bird Big Trees Our House at Pheas- 

 ant Creek Shooting Lyre-Birds Cooking Rice Giant 

 Worms A Memorable Day's Hunt Stalking a Lyre-Bird, 99-123 



CHAPTEK VII. 



Remainder of Our Stay in Victoria A Brush with the Larikins 



Melbourne, its Parks, Library, Climate, Social Life Col- 

 lecting Insects, Diamond Beetles, Ants Driven Home by 

 Flies Good-by to Victoria 124-130 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Queensland Lecturing in Brisbane Tropical Fruits Austra- 

 lian Natives Throwing the Boomerang Disappointed 

 Smokers Flying Foxes A Savage Joke Industrious 

 Chinese A Good Collecting-Ground The Musk Duck 

 Jumping Fishes Migrating Crabs Butterflies Imported 

 Blacks More about the Natives 131-154 



CHAPTEE IX. 



Townsville White Ants Ant-Lions A Large Snake Rain- 

 ing Bird Bodies Thursday Island Coral Reefs The Pearl 

 Oyster and Pearls To the Sea Bottom in a Diver's Armor 

 We Narrowly Escape being Wrecked A Black Trader, 155-181 



