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At our last camp, I observed a Platycercus, of the size of the Moreton Bay Rosella, with blackfront, yellow shoulders, and sea-green body; the female had not the showy colours of the male, and the young ones were more speckled on the back. I believe it to be the Platycercus Brownii, GOULD. A black and white Ptilotis, the only stuffed specimen of which was taken by a kite almost out of Mr.
The lower beds sometimes alternate with shales and coal: at Wolgan I found in carbonaceous shale leaves of the Glossopteris Brownii, a fern which so frequently accompanies the coal of Australia.
The Collyweston beds, on the whole, assume a much more marine character than the Stonesfield slate. Hemitelites Brownii, Goepp. Syn. Phlebopteris contigua, Lind. and Hutt. Lower carbonaceous strata, Inferior Oolite shales.
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