Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0368
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Some account of New Holland.
its hinder legs carrying its fore bent close to its breast it this manner however it hops so fast that in the rocky bad ground where it is commonly found it easily beat my grey hound who tho he was fairly started at several killd only one & that quite a young one. Another was calld by the natives Je-Quoll it is about the size & something like a polecat, of a light grey brown spotted with white on the back & white under the belly the third was of the Opossum kind & much resembling that calld by de Buffon Phalanger of these two last I saw took only one individual of each
[Margin note] Batts
Bats here were many one small we took which was much like if not identicaly the same as that describd by de Buffon under the name of Fer de Cheval Another sort was as large or larger than a partrige but of this Species we were not fortunate enough to take one we supposd it however to be the either the Roupette or Rougette of the same author Besides these Wolves were I beleive seen by several of our people & some other animals describd but from the unintelligible stile of the describers I could not even determine whether they were such as I myself had seen or of different kinds of these describtions I shall