t description of the habits
of this bird see a paper by R. H. Davies, Esq., in the _Tasmanian
Journal_, Vol. II., p. 13.]

[Footnote 273: Two hundred and sixty-two species of Tasmanian insects
were described by the German entomologist Erichsen, in _Wagner's
Archives_ for 1842. The Rev. T. J. Ewing, of New Town, the most zealous
and able Tasmanian entomologist, in a paper in the _Tasmanian Journal_,
vol. iii., p. 456, quotes the following works, where descriptions of
Tasmanian insects may be found.--_Leach's Zoological Miscellany,
Entomological Magazine, The Entomologist, Transactions of the
Entomological Society of London_, and _Annals of Natural History_.]

[Footnote 274: _Voyage in search of La Perouse._]

[Footnote 275: _Vide_ a paper by R. C. Gunn: _Tasmanian Journal_, vol.
II., p. 332.]

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NOTES AND ERRATA.

Transcriber's Note: the following errata have been corrected in the text
above.

Page 4, for "Charles II." read "Charles I."

Page 14. This veteran was at the Exhibition of 1851, pointing out the
natural productions and conversing with great zest with any person
interested in this colony.

Page 29, for "did not visit," read "did not convey the settlers."

Page 41. The state of Van Diemen's Land may be inferred by the following
evidence of Lieutenant Lord (1812), before the Committee of the Commons.
"During eight or nine years we entirely depended on the woods. We had
2lbs. of biscuit weekly for thirteen months;"--"We had not a single
death." "I have often myself been glad to go to bed for want of bread."
Mr. Lord was sometime acting lieutenant governor--the writer has, during
a long voyage which his gentlemanly deportment made pleasant, often
heard him narrate the difficulties of those early days.

Page 56. The following extracts from various documents will bear out the
statements in the text, in reference to the government proceedings of
that day:--

Crossly, the government lawyer, was transported for putting a "fly in a
dead man's mouth"--making a forged will. He drew up the early
indictments. He got his pardon this way: he drew bills (L2000), on a man
of straw in England. They were returned, but as a convict he could not
be sued; therefore Governor King, to protect the creditors, gave him his
pardon.--_Judge Adkins' evidence on