Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813

Frontispiece. Natives of New South Wales
[Title page with vignette of Aboriginal family group at camp]
1-2. The Emue [i.e. emu]
3-4. Mamura Superba [lyrebird]
5. The Swamp Pheasant 
6. [wanting]
7-8. Nankeen Bird [rufous night heron]
9-10. The Black Swan
11-12. Star Wing [dollar bird]
13-14. Black & White Cockatoo [sulphur-crested cockatoo]
15-16. King Parrot
17-18. Rose Hill Parrot, Paroquet and Ground Parrot [eastern rosella;  scaly-breasted lorikeet;  ground parrot]
19. Blue Mountain and Lourie Parrots 
20. [wanting]
21-22. Robbins [flame robin;  eastern yellow robin]
23-24. Owl [tawny frogmouth]
25-26. The Masked Plover [masked lapwing]
27. Honey Sucker 
28. [wanting]
29-30. Sparrow, Tom Tit, Fan Tail & Ant Killer [red-browed finch?;  superb fairy wren;  southern emu-wren;  eastern spinebill or honeyeater]
31-32. Regent [regent bowerbird]
33-34. Kangaroo [eastern grey kangaroo]
35-36. Native Dog [dingo]
37-38. Native Cat [quoll]
39-40. Flying Squirrel [sugarglider]
41-42. Opussum [brushtail possum]
43-47. Fish 
44. John Dory (no.1);  Mullett (no.2);  Flat Head (no.3)
45. Rock Cod (no.4);  Gurnett (no.5);  Trevaille or Cavallia (no.6);  Snapper (no.7) [river blackfish;  blenny;  silver trevaille;  snapper]
46. Groper (no.8);  Parrot Fish (no.9);  Unicorn Fish or Leather Jacket (no.10);  Salmon (no.11) [eastern blue groper;  Maori Wrasse;  yellow-finned leatherjacket;  eastern Australian salmon]
47. Barracouta (no.12);  Leopard Shark (no.13) [longtom;  banded wobbegong]
48-50. Butterflies
49. [l. to r. Macleay's swallowtail butterfly;  old lady moth;  common jezabel butterfly;  nysa jezabel butterfly;  sword-grass brown butterfly]
50. [l. to r. unidentified;  unidentified;  moth;  tiger moth;  glasswing butterfly;  tiger moth;  common brown butterfly;  chalciope hyppasia;  unidentified]
51-52. Insects
[dragonfly;  longicorn beetle;  tree cricket;  robber-fly;  cicada;  leaf hopper;  mantid;  banksia jewel beetle;  short-horned grasshopper;  Christmas beetle;  Botany Bay weevil;  amycterine weevil;  lygaeid bug;  clerid beetle;  shield-bug;  long-horned grasshopper or tree cricket;  native cockroach]
53-54. Reptiles. Brown Snake (no.1);  Black (no.2);  Diamond (no.3);  Water (no.4);  Grass (no.5)
55-56. Native Arms
Mooting or Fish Gig (no.1);  Camoy or Spears (nos.2-4);  Hylliman or Shield (no.5);  Womra or Throwing Stick (no.6);  Waddy or Battle Club (no.7);  Cadgawang or ditto (no.8);  Hyba or Hatchet (no.9);  Wamering thrown to disperse a Crowd (no.10);  Tundi or Basket (no.11);  Coonoonang or Calabash, in which they carry water (no.12);  Heringung or Fishing line, Wallingan or [fishing] hook (no.13);  Genyang a Net (no.14);  Murribe for warding off Blows of the Battle Club (no.15)

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