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KfiUgnroo Inint — Fcrocit}" of tlmt animal — Use of its tendons 

 — Tlie culinary parts — ^Haunts of the kangaro€ — A death 

 struggle— Dissection of 8 kangaroo — ^l^erv&tidit df Jm^ 

 man fat—Ascent of trees in pnrsnit of game — Parrots 

 and cockatoos — The emu — The native porcupme — Speci09 

 of ophthaltntfi, termed lk^^ |»i%ht— Leave tlie Tumat 

 country — Banks of If ?im«nbiilgt>t? — Aborigines — 

 Water gum-tree—Kangaroo rat — The fly-catcher — ^The 

 satin bird — Slieep stations — ^Colonial industry. 



On arriving at tlie plain, having the dogs 

 with us, we started a kangaroo;* (the counaott 



* The natives name idle kangaroo " Bandar and Wuju- 

 buen," but have separate names for each species. At Goul- 

 burn Plains the red specie? h called " Eran luid Warru 

 and» iltbmi^i th&&ffigiaia§e i»f €h^^ «»ther 

 respects, there is often a similarity of the nanKs of animals 

 among tliera, each having tw o or three distinctive appellations, 

 wBidi may have been the cause of so much confUsion existing 

 among this genus of the mammalia ; for Mr, Ogilby, who 

 devoted much time and research to the marsupial quad- 

 rupeds of Attstralta, c;omctly otmrv^ respecting the kan- 



