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your River, as mentioned in Hawkefworth’s Collection of 
Voyages *. It is of a dufky colour above, tinged with a ^ 
brown or rufty call, and whitifh below. About a third of 
the tail, towards its tip, is white, and bare underneath ; by 
which it probably hangs on the branches of trees, as it 
climbs thefe, and lives on berries. Mr. Webber’s drawing 
will give a better idea of it than any defcription. The kan- 
gooroo, another animal found farther Northward in New 
Holland, as defcribed in the fame Voyage f, without all 
doubt alfo inhabits here, as the natives we met with had 
fome pieces of their fkins ; and we feveral times faw ani¬ 
mals, though indiftinCtly, run from the thickets when we 
walked in the woods, which, from the fize, could be no 
other. It fhould feem alfo, that they are in confiderable 
numbers, from the dung we faw almoft every where, and 
from the narrow tracks or paths they have made amongft 
the fhrubbery. 
There are feveral forts of birds, but all fo fcarce and fhy, 
that they are evidently harraffed by the natives, who, per¬ 
haps, draw much of their fubfiflence from them. In the 
woods, the principal forts are large brown hawks or eagles; 
crows, nearly the fame as ours in England; yellowifh pa¬ 
roquets ; and large pigeons. There are alfo three or four 
fmall birds, one of which is of the thrulh kind ; and ano¬ 
ther fmall one, wdth a pretty long tail, has part of the head 
and neck of a moft beautiful azure colour ; from whence we 
named it motacilla cyanea. On the fhore were leveral 
common and fea gulls ; a few black oyfler catchers, or fea- 
pies; and a pretty plover of a ftone colour, with a black 
hood. About the pond or lake behind the beach, a few 
1777* 
January. 
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* Vol.-iii. p. 586. 
f Ibid. p. 577. 
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