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`Guide to the Zoological Gardens, Melbourne': After the opossums comes a specimen of the tiger-cat(Dasyurus Western F. lappaceus, Sm. a small brown Australiansinging-bird, with a red throat, Pyrrholaemus brunneus,Gould.

Black-whale,but known to the naturalist as the Southern Rorqual, which thewhalemen usually avoid. 411: Hapuku, or whapuku, commonly called the cod, but a much richerfish in flavour: externally it more resembles the salmon, andis known in New Holland as the dew or Jew-fish. , which, unlikethe great majority of the family Hylidae to which itbelongs, is terrestrial and not arboreal in its habits, beingfound in and about water-holes in many parts of Australia. Afterwards used for any horse brought fromAustralia.