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Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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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.
ORDER RAPTORES.
Aquila fucosa, Cuv.
Buteo melanosternon, Gould.
Haliaeetus canorus, Vig.

and Horsf.
Pandion leucocephalus, Gould.
Falco hypoleucos, Gould.
Falco melanogenys, Gould.
Falco frontatus, Gould.
Ieracidea berigora, Gould.
Astur approximans, Vig.

and Horsf.
Accipiter torquatus, Vig.


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