Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 414 pages of information about Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 414 pages of information about Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2.

1.  Rhinolophus megaphyllus.

4.* Scotophilus gouldii.

6.  Scotophilus pumilus.

8.  Pteropus poliocephalus.

9.  Canis familiaris Australis.

10.  Otaria peronii.

14.  Dasyurus geoffroyii.

15.* Dasyurus viverrinus.

16.  Phascogale penicillata.

20.  Phascogale flavipes.

21.  Phascogale murina.

25.  Myrmecobius ? rufus.

26.* Perameles fasciatus.

27.* Perameles nasuta.

31.  Choeropus ecaudatus.

33.  Phalangista xanthopus.

35.  Phalangista canina.

36.  Phalangista cuvieri.

39.  Petaurista taguanoides.

40.  Petaurista leucogaster.

41.  Petaurus macrurus.

42.  Petaurus flaviventer.

43.  Petaurus breviceps.

44.  Petaurus sciureus.

45.  Petaurus peronii.

46.  Acrobates pygmaeus.

47.  Macropus major.

50.  Macropus fraenatus.

53.  Halmaturus parryii.

57.  Halmaturus elegans.

56.  Halmaturus ualabatus.

59.  Halmaturus eugenii.

61.  Halmaturus dorsalis.

62.  Halmaturus parma.

64 ?  Halmaturus banksianus.

66.  Petrogale robusta.

68.  Petrogale penicillata.

70.* Hypsiprymnus minor.

73.  Lagorchestes leporoides.

74.  Bettongia setosa.

76.  Bettongia whitei.

78.  Bettongia rufescens.

79.  Phascolarctos fuscus.

82.  Pseudomys australis.

87.  Mus platyurus ?

88.  Mus hovellii ?

89.  Hapalotis albipes.

90.  Hapalotis mitchellii.

92.  Echidna aculeata.

94.* Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

Two species are remarkable as being common to the East and South sides of the Continent, namely: 

48.  Macropus laniger.

84.  Mus lutreola.

26.* P. fasciata.

The latter is also found in Van Diemen’s Land.  And the four following species are common to the South, West, and East sides of the Continent: 

5.  Scotophilus australis.

32.  Phalangista vulpina.

38.  Hepoona cookii, and varieties.

81.  Hydromys chrysogaster.

These are all also found in Van Diemens’ Land, and may therefore be considered as the most generally distributed of all the Australian animals.  Both the Phalangista and the Hepoona are very variable in their colours, and may prove to comprise different species when we are enabled to examine a larger number of specimens from different localities.

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APPENDIX D.

Mr. Gould, who is now engaged in a work upon the Ornithology of Australia, having been solicited to furnish a list of the Birds of the Western coast, has kindly forwarded the following enumeration of the species which have come under his notice as inhabiting that part of the country.  The list, although necessarily incomplete, is the most perfect that has yet been published, and will doubtless be of considerable interest to the scientific as well as the general reader.

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