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). Date: 1876.
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