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| over, and about the cutter’s mast, quite darkened the air with their 
numbers.” “On the summit of Adolphus Island we observed a large 
hawk’s nest, but it was deserted by its constructor.” “Several birds 
Lnew to us were seen” at Admiralty Gulf, “and we also found about 
I the bushes the tail feathers of the cuculus phasianus.” 1 
“Oil Cape Londonderry our people caught a porpoise.” In 
Cambridge Gulf “many medusae were seen; and also a snake three 
l feet long; its back was black, the belly yellow and the tail striped 
black and white.” 2 One evening “after dusk Mr. Roe went with 
a party on shore in order to take turtle, and at eight o’clock returned 
with one of the hawk’s bill species 3 ( Testudo imbricata?) the 
meat of winch weighed seventy-one pounds; about fifty eggs were 
also procured.” 
In Admiralty Gulf “an alligator 4 was lying asleep on the 
beach, but it rushed into the water as we passed the spot. The whole 
of this gulf is admirably formed for the trepan g fishery, and the 
animal is extremelv abundant among the reefs. Both fish and turtle 
of very large size; none, however, 
9cies.” 
? returned to Sydney by way of Bass 
ast of Western Australia. 
“Mermaid” left Sydney on her third 
coast, and on this occasion a medical 
1 to her list. She proceeded by way 
y to the point at which she had left the 
she reached on 5th September. From 
hey were engaged in surveying the 
ipe Voltaire and Brunswick Bay, 
York Sound. 
! frequently met with in this district, 
unningham saw four individuals of a 
inifex on the cliffs, whilst near the 
w a fifth, of a grey colour, and of a 
all opossums were tvuce noted, the 
ame animal that the colonists at Port 
t’ B ; its colour was light red with 
ig the cavern on Bat Island we were 
>ng sulphurous smell, which was soon 
an incredible number of small bats, 
ittom of the cave.” 
birds were numerous, together with 
le birds with very hoarse, discordant 
sembled the beating of a blacksmith’s 
iam (Coucal). 
