Part 47 (1/2)

1888 DMacdonald, `Guhs,' p 36:

”One of the s found about the Murray is that of the locally-termed `cat-bird,' the shell of which is veined thickly with dark thin threads as though covered with a spider's web”

1890 C Lu Cannibals' p 96:

”The cat-bird (AEluraedus , and has a voice strikingly like the us,' March 25:

”Another quaint caller of the bush is the cat-bird, and its eggs are of exactly the colour of old ivory”

1896 G A Keartland, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,'

pt ii Zoology, p 92:

”Their habit of nomen of cat-birds”

<hw>Cat-fish</hw>, n The name is applied in the Old World to various fishes of the family Siluridae, and also to the Wolf-fish of Europe and North America It arises fro ”whiskers” in others, to those of a cat In Victoria and New South Wales it is a fresh-water fish, Copidoglanis tandanus, Mitchell, brought abundantly to Melbourne by railway It inhabits the rivers of the Murray system, but not of the centre of the continent Called also Eel-fish and Tandan (qv) In Sydney the saastoiulanis are Siluroids, and Kathetosto eyes on the upper surface of the head, belonging to the family Trachinidsae

1851 J Henderson, `Excursions in New South Wales,' vol ii

p 207:

”The Cat-fish, which I have frequently caught in the McLeay, is a large and very ugly anie tentacatae, and it has altogether a disagreeable appearance I have eat its flesh, but did not like it”

1880 Mrs Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p 213 [Footnote]:

”Mr Frank Bucklandwriting of a species of rock-fish, says--`I found that it had a beautiful contrivance in the confor both its jaws to nearly the extent of half-an-inch from their natural position This is done by a most beautiful bit of mechaniss' The cat-fish possesses a like feature, but on acapable of being protruded between two and three inches when seizing prey'”

<hw>Cat, Native</hw>, n a senus Dasyurus The so-called native cat is not a cat at all, but a e rat or weasel, with rather a bushy tail It is fawn-coloured or mouse-coloured, or black and covered with little white spots; a very pretty little aniht, when it cli

Its skin is s and cloaks or mantles

The animal is more correctly called a Dasyure (qv)

The species are--

Black-tailed Native Cat Dasyurus geoffroyi, Gould

Coer Cat, qv)-- D viverrimus, Shaw

North Australian NC-- D hallucatus, Gould

Papuan NC-- D albopienetatus, Schl

Slender NC-- D gracilis, Raer Cat)-- D maculatus, Kerr

1880 Mrs Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p 67:

”The native cat is sier Cat; qv] but srey hite spots