Bourke, New South Wales, 94; a winter day at, 94 Bowen, 123 Box-tree, 208 Bower bird, 188 Box-scrub, the, 136 Bream, 193 Breeza plains, 95 Bremer, river, 119 Bremoroma, 94 Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, 43 BRISBANE, population, 119; site, 119; streets, 119; beauty, 120; garden of Acclimatisation Society, 120; houses, 121 Broome, Sir F. N., on life in Western Australia, 140 Brown, Mr. G. A., on sheep breeding, 205 Buffaloes, 113 Bulmer, Rev. J., at Lake Tyers, 176 Bundaberg, 112 Bunbury, 135 Burke, R. O'Hara, expedition of, 161 Burketown, 125 Burnett, river, 122 Bustard, 190 CAIRNS, 124 Caldwell, Mr. W. H., on the platypus, 185 Cam, river, 146 Camels at Beltana, 107 Canoona rush, the, in Queensland, 129 Cape Grant, 67 Cape Nelson, 67 Cape Otway ranges, fire at, 214 Capertee, 91 Capitals, 15 Cardwell, 124 Carr, Mr. E. M., on the natives, 170 Carriers, 210 Castle hill, 87 _Casuarina Striata_, 200 Cats, native, 182 Cattle-raising, 204 Cattle, number of, in Australia, 14 Central Trunk Railway, Queensland, 122 Charters Towers, 123 Churches, the, state of, 31 Clarence, river, 96 Clermont, 123 Climate, 21, 76, 101, 112, 138 Coaching, Trollope on, 70 Cobb, who he was, 70 Cockatoo, 186 Cohan, 94 Colac lake, 65 Collins lands at Sorrento, 38 Collins Street, Melbourne, 49 Concherry, river, 162 Cook, Captain, discovers Botany Bay, 76 Cooktown, 124 Cooper's Creek, native settlement at, 164 Corangamite lake, 64 Corra Linn, 145 Corroboree, a, 174 Cotton growing in Queensland, 129 Crosbie, Clara, story of, 219 Cunningham's Gap, 119 Cutting out cattle, 204 Cycads, 202 DALBY, 122 Darling Downs, 118, 119 Darling, river, 21, 94 _Dasyuridæ_, the, 182 Deloraine, 145 Democracy, 29 D'Entrecasteaux Channel, 151 Depôt Glen, Sturt at, 23 Derwent, river, 150 Devil, Tasmanian, 182 Dibbs, Mr., on losses by drought, 25 Dingo, 183 Dog, wild, 183 Don, river, 146 Dow, Mr. T. K., on farming, 211 Drought, losses by, 25, 76, 94, 208 Dubbo, 94 Ducks, wild, 191; mountain duck, 191; black duck, 191; wood duck, 191; teal, 191; widgeon, 191; blue wing, 191 EAGLEBANK NECK, 151 Elder, Sir Thomas, introduces camels, 107 Emu, chase of, 188 Emu Plains, 88; Dr. J. E. Taylor on, 90 Eucalypt, 194 _Eucalyptus amygdalina_, 196 _E. dumosa_, 199 _E. ficifolia_, 199 _E. globus_, 200 _E. rostrata_, 197