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[See Bunce quotation, 1859. [Found in] New South Wales. 7: Interposing the even more troublesome Bauera shrub; whosegnarled branches have earned for it the local and expressivename of `tangle-foot' or `leg ropes. The species are--Lesser F.

Cook's journal waspublished in 1893, edited by Captain Wharton, hydrographer tothe Admiralty; Banks's journal, in 1896, edited by Sir J. `Miner's Right,' c. By Latham it was mistaken for a Vulture, and classed by himas the New Holland Vulture. It has received various names--Platypus anatinus,Duck-billed Platypus, Ornithorhynchus,Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, Paradoxus,Water-mole, etc.