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Brown, Perron, Lessueur, Bailly, P. P. King, Gunn, Backhouse, and Gould enriched the cabinets of Europe, and to which we trace our first notions of Australian zoology.

Prior to 1824, the accounts of that zoology, which had been published, were limited to monographs and isolated descriptions, laid from time to time before the English and Continental public.

In the above-mentioned year a more complete view of the Australian zoology was given. Capt. P. P. King, R.N., in his valuable Appendix to the Narrative of the Australian Survey, embraced all its branches in one systematic outline, to which the names of the eminent naturalists, William Sharp, Macleay, and John Edward Gray, who determined and classified the specimens, give an additional importance.

In that Appendix, the Mammalia comprise 6 species; the Aves, 14; the Reptilia, 9; the Pisces, 7; the Annulosa, 192; the Radiata, 5; the Acrita, 25; and, finally, the Mollusca, 111.

Since then, the contributions and additions secured to several of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, render their illustration nearly complete: to the illustration of some others, such additions are still sadly wanting.

In justice to those who have so zealously and perseveringly promoted our knowledge of these distant regions, now of such importance to colonisation, and in order to furnish a guide to those whose zeal may enable us hereafter to extend still farther our information in a department where so much has still to be learnt, we shall briefly give the sum of our zoological knowledge of the Australian continent up to the present day, whereby will be seen what has already been done, and what remains to do.

MAMMALIA.

With the following list of Mammals, inhabiting New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Bass's Straits, as also with that of Birds, I was kindly favoured by John Gould, Esq. F.R.S.

CHEIROPTERA.

Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray. N.S. W. and V. D. L. Nyctophilus Geoffroyii Leach? N. S. W. generally, and V. D. L.

Scotophilus Gouldii Gray. N. S. W. and V. D. L. Australis Gray. N. S. W. generally, and

V. D. L.

rally.

surface.

pumilus Gray. Interior of N. S. W. geneFlies over rivers and pools, close to the

FERE.

Canis familiaris Australasia. (The Dingo.) N. S. W. generally, not V. D. L.

Octaria Perronii Desm. (Perron's Seal). The rocky coasts of N. S. W., V. D. L., and the islands in Bass's Straits.

GLIRES.

Hydromys chrysogaster Geoff. N. S. W. and V. D. L.
Pseudomys Australis Gray. Liverpool Plains, N. S. W.
Mus fuscipes Waterh. N. S. W.

setifer Horsf. V. D. L.
?platurus Mitch. N. S. W.
? Hovellii Mitch.

Hapalotis albipes Licht.

N. S. W.

Mitchellii Gray.

Port Philip.

Interior of N. S. W.

MARSUPIALIA.

Thylacinus cynocephalus Fisch. V. D. L. only. (Tiger of colonists.)

Diabolus ursinus Harris. V. D. L. only. (The Devil of colonists.)

Dasyurus maculatus Shaw. V. D. L. only.

Geoffroyii Gould. Interior of N. S. W. Common on the Liverpool and other high ranges. viverrinus Shaw. N. S. W. and V. D. L. N. S. W. generally.

Phascogall penicillata Shaw. Antechinus affinis Gray. V. flavipes Waterh.

D. L.

N. S. W.

Red Shrew Mouse of Mitchell's Trav. genus? Interior

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Phalangista vulpina Shaw.

N.

S. W. generally. fuliginosa Ogilby. V. D. L. only.

canina Ogilby. Ranges towards the inte

rior of N. S. W.

Hepoona Cookii Gray. V. D. L. There are two, if not three, species confounded under this name; and it is consequently uncertain to which of them it applies.

Dromicia gliriformis (Phalangista gliriformis Bell)

V. D. L.

Petaurus Taguanoïdes Desm. N. S. W.

Belideus flaviventer Desm. Brushes of N. S. W. sciureus Shaw. N. S. W. generally.

breviceps Waterh. N. S. W.

Acrobates pygmæus Desm. N. S. W.

Macropus major Shaw. N. S. W. and V. D. L. frænatus Gould. Plains of interior of N. S. W. Mountain ranges of

Osphranter robustus Gould.

N. S. W.

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Ualabatus Less. Brushes of N. S. W.

ruficollis Less. N. S. W.

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Billardièri Desm. V. D. L.

Eugenii Gray. Brushes of N. S. W. Parma Gould. Brushes of Illawara. dorsalis Gray. Stony ridges of interior

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rufescens Gray. N. S. W.

cuniculus Ogilby. V. D. L.

Hypsiprymnus minor Cuv. N. S. W. This or a nearly allied animal inhabits V. D. L.

Phascolarctos cinereus Fisch. (The Koala.) Brushes of N. S. W. generally.

Phascolomys ursinus and V. D. L.

(The Wombat.) N. S. W.

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Ornithorhynchus paradoxus Blum. Ornithorhynchi are common in the rivers of the eastern portion of N. S. W. as well as in those of V. D. L., and

doubtful whether there be not more than one species, as specimens procured in V. D. L. differ from those obtained in N. S. W.

AVES.

RAPTORES.

Aquila fucosa Cuv. N. S. W., V. D. L., and I. in B. S. Morphnoïdes Gould. N. S. W. interior.

Ichthyiaëtus leucogaster Gould. N. S. W., V. D. L., and I. in B. S.

Syn.-Falco leucogaster Lath.

Haliastur leucosternus Gould. Brushes of N. S. W. Pandion leucocephala Gould. V. D. L., I. in B. S., and coasts of N. S. W.

Falco melanogenys Gould. N. S. W., V. D. L., and I. in B. S.

frontatus Gould.

in B. S.

N. S. W., V. D. L., and I.

Ieracidea Berigora Gould. N. S. W., V. D. L., and I. in B. S.

Syn. Falco Berigora Vig. and Horsf. Tinnunculus Cencroïdes Gould. N. S. W. Syn. Falco Cencroïdes Vig. and Horsf. Astur approximans Vig. and Horsf.

V. D. L., and I. in B. S.

N. S. W.,

Nova-Hollandiæ Vig. and Horsf. N. S. W.

Syn. Falco Novæ-Hollandiæ Gould.

albus Jard. and Selb. N. S. W., V. D. L.,

and I. in B. S.

Syn. Falco albus Shaw.

Accipiter torquatus Vig. and Horsf.

V. D. L., and I. in B. S.

N. S. W.,

Buteo melanosternon Gould. Interior of N. S. W.

Milvus isurus Gould. N. S. W.

affinis Gould. N. S. W.

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