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Introduced animals

Tasmanian Journal. 1843. vol II. W. Colenso "An account of some enormous fossil bones" &c. N. Zeal (NB apteryx case of relation of past & present)

p. 97 speaking of aboriginal dog, says has "become very scarce, in consequence of the continued introduction of other & larger varieties."

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p. 97 Mus musculus. M. rattus & M. decumanus all abound in N. Zealand.

p 98 Pigs, dogs, cats, rats & mice are now wild & numerous throughout the island - even in the dense forests of the interior. The natives attribute the destruction of the Apteryx & other large & unknown birds to these pests.

p. 131. Lieut. Breton Excursion to the W. Range Tasmania The wild cattle are not numerous, "for most of the calves perish."

p. 136 After speaking of the tracts of dead trees, supposed by some to have been killed by a severe winter, but of which there seems some doubt - some attribute it to a great thunder storm, he said thousands of Eucalyptus standing dead "I know myself that in several instances, the trees at certain spots have flourished until cattle & sheep have been depastured upon the ground, where they grew & then the trees died; but whether this is attributable to the eating down of the grass, & thus in some degree exposing the roots, wh. are unquestionably often very superficial, I will not pretend to say'" - The Euca. globulus is that most often found dead.

p. 137. "The acacias [over]

[in margin:] contrast with [illeg] for shade. -

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also frequently perish at certain spots, but this is effected by a caterpillar which eats the whole of the leaves" the tree then dies - Hooker described the dead trees, on St. Helena still standing upright, of species now lost in the island, in a wild state, but preserved in the Gardens & at Kew.