The Mariner is called by the Tasmanian FisheryCommissioners the Pearly Necklace Shell ; when deprived of itsepidermis by acid or other means, it has a blue or green pearlylustre. Some of these are now so wide-spread in theiracclimatization, that the botanists are at variance as towhethe There are several species of thisbird in Australia and Tasmania, where they go by the name ofNative Hen, and sometimes, erroneously, Moor-hen(q. resinifera, Smith.
126: The country continued open forest land for about three miles,the cypress and the bastard-box being the prevailing timber;of the former many were useful trees. Three species areknown, from the coasts of Southern Australia and New Zealand. 2: When I told them of my `dart,' some were contemptuous,others incredulous. or the two varieties (the red and the white), found in suchabundance here, have the general characters as shownabove.
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