THE QUEENSLAND CATTLE TICK — KAINBOW. 
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wild duck, and even on the little shepherd’s companion (wagtail).” 
In addition to these hosts, Mr. Pound points out that “In studying 
the habits of various species of ticks living apart from their host 
under natural conditions on some of the northern rivers of this 
Colony [Queensland], I have noticed that in the larval stage there 
was a natural inclination or instinct to attach themselves to any 
moving object, no matter whether animate or inanimate.” 
The Governments of New South Wales and Queensland have, in 
their wisdom, deliminated a boundary beyond which cattle from 
affected areas must not pass without inspection and treatment, and 
this, so far as it goes, is very right and proper. Tt has been urged 
that the cattle tick cannot thrive on hosts other than bovines; but 
even supposing so, the fact that living examples have, in different 
parts of the world, been found upon deer, sheep, dogs, and even under 
bark, is in itself sufficiently conclusive evidence as to a means by 
which “Texas Fever” may be conveyed, and that, in order tobe logical 
and thorough, the quarantine regulations should be extended to 
all animals travelling from the affected districts. It is a recognised 
fact that the disease is slowly but surely spreading south — hence 
the necessity of extending the proscribed area ; and it is only a 
question of time, therefore, when it will have invaded New South 
Wales, and who can tell where or when its devastating march 
will stop ? Stock owners of New South Wales and Victoria would 
do well, therefore, to note the facts recorded by Professor 
Neumann. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
I. - -.S' TEG OS TO M A TIGRINUM, GMEL. 
An ADDITION to the FAUNA of NEW 80UTH WALES. 
On March 14th of the current year, we received from Mr W. 
Hibbs an example of the shark Stegostoma tigrinum , Gmel.,* 
caught in the River Hawkesbury, New South Wales. It is a 
female, measures four feet in length, and in colour nearly agrees 
with var. 3 of Muller and Henle.f The observations were made 
while the shark was still alive, it having been received by us in 
that condition. The ground is creamy, with a greenish hue about 
the head and dorsal region ; the markings are black spots, smaller 
and regularly arranged on the head, much larger and more widely 
spaced on the body and fins. 
* Gmel. — Linn., p. 1493. 
f Muller und Henle — Plagiostomen, p. 24. 
