_ a JIIOIRIOIUIOR is FI UII OUI IIR Re g less divided by the dogs: it is true ere is nO ce a but when d the leading one ¢ masse, Wl ) lid alarm, and one bounding off is the en or the whole d immediately take the lead, while the males from their greater weight way, the a ae the rear a long distance behind, but they all follow ; ee ee stop the entire herd stop also: this habit I haye Kangaroo as a gregarious animal. Occasionally followe i is disturbed, the whole her ee ct when running m this : ith them, and ofte : t ading does, and when idered the ave always consider ; ee . fee ss sion of a valley, and there remain for years without moving a ke possess misanthropic life ; such instances, however, are not very a one to follow: are unable to keep up W in the same track as the le noticed so frequently, that an old and very large male mil ta mile from the spot, leading 10 fact 7 still, two or three spots are know remembe a_ perfectly at cee af n to me which have been thus tenanted for years, many of the common ; ee ring these particular animals from their childhood. Some Re AG vy young , settlers and aborigines, now youns aarras settlers and aborig aroo-hunters have endeavoure yes: with the exception of cases like these, it is rare to meet with a ae the cost of much injury to their de single Kangaroo. oo : Mr. Gunn states that in Van Diemen's ee is esculei igh-erass, and i high ferns, such as Pers esculenta, high-grass, < si ’ nargins of streams ; tches of Melaleuca, Leptospermum, &c. on the margins 0 ams 5 hough almost ae | : t the butt, and innumerable dead and hollow trees cover the ground, I have never at lg ch a | | the space under a dead tree is much more likely to be resorted to Land the Kangaroos “lodge during the heat of the day amongst Lich d gt) s . rwood, commonly called scrub, that is, dense and although almost all the forest trees P (Lucalypti) are hollow known them used as sleeping-places : l i of a living one. - this purpose than the hollow of ¢ g . oe be ae. - melli ring’ ar exquisite in this animal that it 1s extremely difficult of approach The senses of smelling and hearing are so exquis without detection, and to effect this it is always necessary ce advance against le a . a upon various kinds of grasses, herbs and low shrubs, a kind of Led which renders ne ce a nutritive. The early dawn and evening are the periods at which it feeds, and at which it is most certain to Petes ih: . ' . ive dog, its most formidable antagonist h Although hunted and frequently killed by the Dingo, o1 ave dos SI ablevantaiag as hitherto been the Aborigine, who employs several modes of ebtaininys ne sometimes stealing upon i wit the utmost caution under covert of the trees and bushes, until it is within the range of his spear, which is generally thrown with unerring aim; at other times, having discovered their retreat, the natives ae ina party, and, forming a large circle, gradually close in upon them with shouts and yells, by which the animals are so terrified and confused, that they easily become victims to the bommerengs, clubs and spears which are directed against them from all sides. Still, however formidable an enemy the Aborigine may have been, the Great Grey Kangaroo finds, at the present time, a far greater one in the white man, whose superior knowledge enables him to employ, for its destruction, much more efficient weapons and assailants than those of the more simple son of nature. Independently of the gun, he brings to his aid dogs of superior breed, and of so savage a nature, that the timid Kangaroo has but little chance when opposed to them. These dogs, which run entirely by sight, partake of the nature of the greyhound and deerhound, and from their great strength and fleetness are so well adapted for the duties to which they are trained, that its escape, when this occurs, is owing to peculiar and favourable circumstances, as, for example, the oppressive the former incapacitating the dogs for a severe chase endeavours to gain heat of the day, or the nature of the ground ; , and the hard ridges which the Kangaroo invariably giving him a great advantage over his pursuers. particular will frequently outstrip the fleetest greyhound, while, on the contrary, heavy old males, on soft ground, are easily overtaken. Many of these fine Kangaroo-dogs are kept at the stock-stations of the inte- rior for the sole purpose of running the Kangaroo and the Emu, the latter being killed solely for the supply of oil which it yields, and the former for mere sport, or for food for the dogs. Although I have killed the largest males with a single dog, it is not generally advisable to attempt t and frequently rip up the dogs, and sometimes even cut them to the are more generally laid on, upon and kill it. clasping its short powerful for and there keeping it bene On such grounds the females in his, as they possess great power, heart with a single stroke of the hind one of superior fleetness to « pull” the Kangaroo, | It sometimes adopts a singular mode of defending itself by e-limbs around its away with it to the nearest water-hole, with dogs the old males will do this whenever also attempt to do the same with man. In Van ms an object of chase, and like the De eek, during the se crossing the ferry they seldom meet without warded to me by the Honou » and one of its chief “T have much pleasure in telling hounds are kept by ; and though not so fast as most hound that country, “The ‘Boomer’ cannot live al different sity show leg. Three or four dogs while the others rush in antagonist, leaping ath the surface until drowned : they have an Opportunity, and it is said that they will 5 » a ? Nf Diemen’s Land the Macropus major for hunted with hounds; and twice a w mounted on their fleet steeds, hunting-eround, where leis been obligingly for Sir John Franklin er and Fox in England, is ason, the Nimrods of this distant land may be seen, of the Derwent, at Hobart Town, on their way to the “finding.” The following particulars of the “hunt” rable Henry Elliot, late aide-de-camp to His Excellency patrons, : you all T know of the Kan Nr. Gregson, and have been bred by S here now are, they garoo-hunting in Van Diemen’s Land. The him from foxhounds imported from England ; are quite as fast as it is possible to ride to in is the only Kang ove twenty minutes be ations, we never aroo which shows good for fbi ore the hounds ; but were at a loss to find We Senerally ‘found? jn Sport, for the strongest ‘Brush Kangaroo’ as the two kinds are always found in perfectly a Boomer, and I must say that they seldom failed to r of young wattles US good sport. a hich cove : SON ; but sometimes we ‘found’