4618 THE ZooLocist—SEPTEMBER, 1875. 
Peewit. — July 25. Immense flocks of lapwings in the 
marshes, In one flock there was a single golden plover in 
summer plumage. 
JOHN CoRDEAUX. 
Great Cotes, Uleeby, Lincolnshire, 
August 3, 1875. 
The Camel in Australia. 
[The camel, like the horse, cow, sheep, dog, and cat, is I believe nowhere 
a strictly feral animal, but is always found more or less associated with 
man as his companion or his servant; it is therefore a task of no incon- 
siderable interest to watch his enforced migration from country to country 
in this capacity of an attendant on man, and it is with this object that 
I have extracted the following facts from Colonel Warburton’s narrative of 
discoveries in Australia. In this narrative the camel is introduced for the 
first time as a traveller in that New World, in exploring which he has 
borne so distinguished a part: once introduced he will probably maintain 
his ground, for like the other animals I have enumerated he seems calculated 
to hold his own —Edward Newman.] 
In 1866 a gentleman named Stuckey was despatched to India 
by Mr. Elder for the purpose of purchasing a number of camels 
and asses. Out of 124 of the former shipped at Kurrachee 121 
were landed in South Australia in perfectly good condition; three 
were lost on the voyage from cold, which produced inflammation 
of the lungs. ‘They bore the confinement of the passage remark- 
ably well; in fact, from being too liberally supplied with native 
grass, hay, and: of the chaff of rape and of wheat, they became 
so fat that it became necessary to place them on a shorter scale 
of diet. Their allowance of water consisted of from two to three 
gallons each daily. No dressing or bedding was used, simply coir 
matting nailed upon the deck to prevent their feet from slipping; 
neither were partitions of any kind necessary, the docile animals 
lying or standing quietly side by side, fastened only by the head. 
After landing, the camels continued rapidly to increase, but an 
epidemic attacked them, a kind of mange, by which disease more 
than seventy were swept away. The Afghan drivers, some dozen in 
number, who had accompanied their animals, stated that this com- 
plaint was common to the camel in its own country, and that it 
could be cured by means of oil extracted from certain shrubs. 
But none of the requisite specific could be found in Australia, and 
