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Lixe the Ornithorhynchus, this remarkable creature is only found in the south-eastern
portion of the great land of the South. It is in the brushes which skirt the sea side
of the mountain-ranges between the district of Dlawarra and the River Clarence that
it is most numerous; here, among the leafy branches of the great trees, the Koala

remains sleeping during the daytime; but at nightfall this lethargy gives place to more

 

active habits, and it then moves about with agility in search of its natural diet, which

is said to be the tender buds and shoots of the EHucalypti.

Like too many others of the larger Australian mammals, this species is certain to
become gradually more scarce, and to be ultimately extirpated; I have not hesitated,

therefore, to give a life-sized head, as well as reduced figures, which, with a full account

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