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District Office, Casino. 
So far as native animals are concerned, the general opinion is that opossums 
favour Red Gum more than any other Eucalypt. 
G. E. RUMMERY, District Forester. 
Red Gum (E. tereticornis). 
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District Office, Deniliquin. 
The opossum eats all the foregoing (eaten by stock, p. 448), Grey Box preferably. 
The opossum is too few in numbers in this district to be classed as doing any great 
harm to the Eucalypts. 
N. C. WENTWORTH, Assistant Forester. 
Grey Box (E. liemiphloia var. albens). 
District Office, Wagga Wagga. 
I also regard native animals as a natural, but not important, enemy of the 
young tree. 
With regard to the eating of leaves, no officer consulted by me considers that 
any damage done by the eating of leaves of grown trees by native animals is very 
material, an opinion in which I concur. 
J. S. BARRY, Inspector and District Forester. 
District Office, Forbes. - 
The opossum finds his home and feed chiefly in the Red Gum, and to some 
extent in the Yellow Box, but to-day it is seldom seen, and so far as this district is 
concerned he has practically disappeared, except in the mountains. 
H. W. GARLING, District Forester. 
Red Gum (E. rostrata) ; Yellow Box (E. melliodora). 
District Office, Narrabri. 
Regarding native animals, the opossum seems to favour White Box or Ironbark 
also. Trappers, some years ago, used to say that the best skins came from White Box 
country. In the Nundle district the wombat is very destructive, damaging hundreds 
of trees by stripping the bark, but this is for his nest, not for food. The Woollybutt 
(E. obliqua) suffers chiefly, also various Stringybarks. 
GORDON BURROW, District Forester. 
For botanical names, see p. 449. 
District Office, Dubbo. 
Native animals marsupials prefer Eucalypts of the same species as stock 
the White Box (E. hemiphloia var. albens) being their favourite. Marsupials will eat 
almost any species of grasses and Eucalypts. The climbing marsupial survives 
droughts much better than other species, such as kangaroos, wallabies, &c. 
Emus depend more on berries, grasses, although they will eat the leaves of 
Eucalypts of any species when starving. 
My report above refers only to inland Eucalypts. 
A. R. SAMUEL, District Forester. 
