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W. B. ALEXANDER, M.A. : 
Besides the figures of birds already referred to. Da rapier gives 
figures of several fish taken on the west coast of Australia. Fig. i, 
“ the Monk Fish,” has already been referred to. Fig. 3, “ a Fish 
taken on the Coast of New Holland,” is too indefinite for determin- 
ation. lug. 6, “ a Remora taken sticking to Sharks backs ” is readily 
recognised by the sucker as Echeneis remora or Lepkcheneis 
naucrates. 1 here is nothing to show whether Dampier obtained the 
specimen on our coast, but the latter is frequent there and the fig- 
ure is on the same plate with the other Australian species. Fig. 8, 
‘‘a Cuttle taken nearX. Holland,” is a very rough drawing of some 
species of cuttle-fish or squid. Fig. 5, "a’ Fish of the Tunny kind 
taken on ye coast of X. Holland, ” has the following account attach- 
ed: ” This is a Fish of the Tunny-kind, and agrees well enough with 
the Figure in Tab. 3 of the Appendix to Mr. Willughby’s History 
of Fishes under the name of Gurabuea ; it differs something, in 
the Fins especially, from Piso’s Figure of the Guarapucu.” [It 
appears to be too rough a figure for identification/ Fig. 4, “ a 
Fish called by the seamen the Old Wife,” is thus described : 
“ This resembles the Figure of the Guaperva maxima caudata in 
Willughby’s Ichthyol, Tab. 9, 23, and the Guaperva of Piso, 
but does not answer their Figures in every particular.” It is 
evidently the fish still called ” Old Wife,” Emoplognathus armatus. 
It is referred to several times in the narrative, and is still plentiful 
on our coast.] 
This completes all that was known about the zoology of 
Western Australia for almost a century, no further natural 
history observations being made until Vancouver arrived in 1791. 
I will conclude this section of my paper with a brief systematic 
list of the animals mentioned in the narratives which we have 
just perused. 
Mammals.- -Aborigines arc referred to in almost all the 
narratives, and they or traces of them were met with whenever 
any of the earl}’ explorers landed on the coast. 
The Dingo ( Canis dingo) was only seen by Dampier's men 
on his second visit, and some of Vlaming’s men may have also 
seen one. Warning and Dampier, on both his visits, saw their 
footmarks. 
The Dama Wallaby was met with and accurately described 
by Pelsart on the Abrolhos, whilst the Short-tailed Wallaby was 
met with by Yolckersen and Vlaming on Rottnest. Dampier 
met with the Banded Wallaby on the islands of Sharks Bay and 
called it a Raccoon. He also mentions a Raccoon, presumably 
another kind of Wallaby, as being seen on the North-West Coast. 
Of marine mammals, Dampier met with the Dugong on 
both his visits, and saw numerous Whales, large and small, and 
Dolphins on the second occasion. 
