He said the kangaroo had pockets, and carried its young in them when it couldn't get apples.

And he said that the emu was as big as an ostrich, and looked like one, and had an amorphous appetite and would eat bricks.

Also, that the dingo was not a dingo at all, but just a wild dog; and that the only difference between a dingo and a dodo was that neither of them barked; otherwise they were just the same.

He said that the only game-bird in Australia was the wombat, and the only song-bird the larrikin, and that both were protected by government.

The most beautiful of the native birds was the bird of Paradise.