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District Office, Moruya. 
Opossums will, I think, eat the young foliage of almost any Eucalypt, but the 
native bear, now practically extinct in the coastal strip, had a decided preference for 
the Grey Gum, and where that species does not occur, for the Mountain Gum 
(E. goniocalyx), Woollybutt, and Red Gum (E. tereticornis}. 
C. J. CLULEE, District Forester. 
The Grey Gum and Woollybutt are E. pundata and E. longifolia respectively. 
District Office, Windsor. 
As a destructive agency, the native animals as a cause may be reckoned as 
negligible, especially as they are becoming fast extinct. 
The opossum favours the young foliage of the Messmate varieties, but the harm 
done is not of a serious nature. 
J. J. McLEOD, Assistant Forester. 
The Messmate is probably E. piperita. 
District Office, Wyong. 
Those mostly eaten by native animals are : By opossums and squirrels : Blue 
Gum and Grey Gum ; by native bears : Grey Gum. Other native animals are not 
partial to the leaves of the Eucalyptus. 
F. G. McPnERSON, District Forester. 
Blue Gum is E. saligna, and Grey Gum E. punctata and E. propinqua. 
District Office, Taree. 
The opossum (very scarce in this district) feeds principally on grass, although 
it is generally understood they eat leaves of Eucalypts and prefer Grey Gum, Tallow- 
wood, and White and Red Mahogany. 
Native bears (almost extinct) and squirrels eat leaves of Eucalypts, but I am 
unable to state what kinds. 
As to bandicoots, kangaroo rats, paddymelons, &c., these live mostly on grass, 
fern, and other roots. I do not know if they eat leaves of Eucalypts. 
H. J. LYNE, District Forester. 
Grey Gum (E. propinqua), Tallow-wood (E. microcorys), White Mahogany 
(E. acmenioides), Red Mahogany (E. resinifera). 
District Office, Urunga. 
Of native animals, the ground marsupials do not particularly favour any 
Eucalyptus leaves if grass is available. Opossums and bears will eat Spotted and Red 
Gum leaves, also Tallow-wood, in fact, all kinds of Eucalyptus leaves. 
Flying foxes are very destructive, and especially favour Blood wood and Spotted 
Gum when flowering. 
W. F. BRIGGS, District Forester. 
Spotted Gum (E. maculata), Red Gum (E. tereticornis), Tallow-wood 
(E. microcorys), Bloodwood (E. corymbosa). 
