Select Specimens from nature, of the Birds Animals, &c, &c, of New South Wales, Collected and Arranged by Thomas Skottowe Esqr. The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. Newcastle New South Wales 1813

FRONTISPIECE (Copy of coloured illustration of Aboriginal female & male) NATIVES of NEW SOUTH WALES

Presented by A. Cahill To Him Son. Frank Cahill Augt. 3d 1852

Select Specimens FROM NATURE of the Birds Animals &c. &c. of NEW SOUTH WALES Collected and Arranged by THOMAS SKOTTOWE ESQR.

[drawing of men and women holding spears, and children around a fire looking onto a wooden hut] THE DRAWINGS B T. R. BROWNE, N. S. W.

NEWCASTLE New South Wales 1813

THE EMUE This Bird approaches near in appearance as to the Ostrich of North America / of which it is a species / than to the African Bird. Its general height when full grown is about six feet, but they vary in size. The Plumage is I believe peculiar to itself and forms its greatest curiosity in having from each quill a stem two distinct feathers. The Emu is remarkably swift and possesses enormous strength in its legs, a kick from which is as strong as one from a Horse. They generally feed or go in flocks, tho very often found singly . Their Egg differs from that of the Ostrich, being rather of an oblong than oval shape which they themselves sit on and hatch, as soon as the young ones are out of the shell run in search of food. The old ones leading them in search of it, they are in consequence always travelling never nesting two nights on the same spot Native Name Gongorong

[watercolour illustration of Emu]

MAMURA SUPERBA Commonly called the Mountain Pheasant. This Bird is remarkable for the Beautiful Plumage of its Tail, and found amongst the Rocky Cliffs of the Mountains of which it seems to be an Inhabitant, with the exception of the Tail its Beauties are no more than those of a Dusty coloured Barn Door Fowl it is said however to possess a Sweet Note, by those who have had the pleasure of hearing it Native Name Golgol