In the woods are various little songsters, whose notes are equally sweet and plaintive.
Of quadrupeds, except the kangaroo, I have little to say.

The few met with are almost invariably of the opossum tribe, but even these do not abound.

To beasts of prey we are utter strangers, nor have we yet any cause to believe that they exist in the country.

And happy it is for us that they do not, as their presence would deprive us of the only fresh meals the settlement affords, the flesh of the kangaroo.

This singular animal is already known in Europe by the drawing and description of Mr.
Cook.