Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manne eBook

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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manne eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 408 pages of information about Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1.

ORDER NATATORES.

Cygnus atratus. 
Anseranas melanoleuca. 
Leptotarsis Eytoni, Gould. 
Cereopsis Novae-Hollandiae, lath. 
Casarka Tadornoides. 
Biziura lobata, Shaw. 
Bernicla jubata. 
Anas Novae-Hollandiae, lath.
——­ naevosa, Gould.
——­ castanea. 
Nyroca Australis, Eyton. 
Rhynchapsis Rhynchotis, Steph. 
Malacorhynchus membranaceus, Swains. 
Podiceps Australis, Gould.
-------- poliocephalus, JARD. and SELB.
-------- gularis, Gould. 
Phalacrocorax pica.
------------- leucogaster, Gould. 
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris.
------------- melanoleucus. 
Plotus Le Vaillantii? 
Pelecanus spectabilis, Temm. 
Sula Australis, Gould. 
Spheniscus minor. 
Lestris catarrhactes. 
Laras leucomelas. 
Xema Jamesonii, WILS. 
Sterna poliocerca, Gould.
------ velox, Gould. 
Sternella nereis, Gould. 
Hydrochelidon fluviatilis. 
Diomedea exulans, Linn.
-------- cauta, Gould.
-------- melanophrys, Temm.
-------- chlororhyncha, lath.
-------- fuliginosa. 
Procellaria gigantea, GMEL.
----------- perspicillata, Gould.
----------- hasitata, Forst.
----------- leucocephala.
----------- Solandri, Gould. 
Daption Capensis, Steph. 
Prion vittata, Cuv.
----- Banksii.
----- Turtur.
----- Ariel, Gould. 
Puffinus brevicaudus, Gould. 
Puffinuria urinatrix, less. 
Thalassidroma Wilsoni.
------------- nereis, Gould.
------------- melanogaster, Gould.

The preceding list comprises the birds inhabiting the settled districts of South Australia:  viz. the Murray, from the great bend to the sea, the fertile districts sixty miles northward and southward of Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln, etc.  When the remote parts of the colony have been explored, it will doubtless become necessary to add to it many other species common to New South Wales and Western Australia.—­J.  G.

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