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P. 128 "Ornithorhynchus has no nipples".

154 "Although peaches have been introduced into the colony of New South Wales from its earliest period, & Opossums were as abundant in the vicinity of the same orchards than as at the present time, yet it has only been within the last two or three years that they have been found robbing the orchards, having evidently acquired a new taste."

170 "It is not unusual to find birds, which had never before been seen

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in the locality, appear (as in the instances above related) in some of the settled districts of the colony."

P. 192 "The foreign Bee is fast driving away the aboriginal insect, as the European is exterminating the black from the settled districts, so that the Australian Bee is becoming very scarce."

P. 355 "I observed in November, in the vineyards, the destructive larva of the Phlaenoides glycinæ, feeding upon the leaves of the Vine; when touched, it turned, & ejected a greenish fluid upon the aggressor. It formerly fed upon the Kennedya (an indigenous creeper), but has now forsakes for the exotic vine, & proves a great pest cultivator.

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p. 16 Flying fish fly for 32" for 200 to 250 yd rise 14 or 15 feet above water doubts being generally or always pursued, for pleasure & pursuing prey - motive doubtful - (so with a Bird)