The head was so much crushed in killing it that I could not examine its teeth.
Mr.Roper and John Murphy succeeded in shooting eight cockatoos, which gave us an excellent soup.

I found in their stomachs a fruit resembling grains of rice, which was slightly sweet, and would doubtless afford an excellent dish, if obtained in sufficient quantity and boiled.
March 10 .-- We had slight drizzling showers towards sunset; the night very cloudy till about ten a.m., when it cleared up.

The variety of grasses is very great; the most remarkable and succulent were two species of Anthistiria, the grass of the Isaacs, and a new one with articulate ears and rounded glumes.

A pink Convolvulus, with showy blossoms, is very common.

Portulaca, with terete leaves, grows sparingly on the mild rich soil.
Were a superficial observer suddenly transported from one of the reedy ponds of Europe to this water-hole in Suttor Creek, he would not be able to detect the change of his locality, except by the presence of Casuarinas and the white trunks of the majestic flooded-gum.