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Scene in Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia.

  • Left: lyre-bird (as Menura superba)
  • Centre: emu (as Dromæus novæ-hollandiæ)
  • Right: crested pigeons (Ocyphaps lophotes)
  • Bird on tree: frog-mouthed goat-sucker, "More-pork", (as Podargus strigoides)
  • Distance: kangaroo (as Macropus giganteus)
  • Foreground: flying opossum (as Petaurus sciureus)
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Source The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. I: Project Gutenberg : Internet Archive
Author Alfred Russel Wallace. Illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814–1876).


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