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Identifier: victoriannatura851968luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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t butter, honey and oatmeal mix-ture. Coat colour in all but one of thespecimens collected in this area is * Curator of Vertebrates, National Museumjf Victoria. by Joan M. Dixon* remarkably constant, the fur being adeep yellow-flecked chocolate brown.The one aberrant specimen, a female,differs markedly in coat colour fromnormal specimens (Figs. 1 and 2).Throughout the general body hair andextending down the tail are long whiteguard hairs. The overall appearance ofthe dorsal body hair is a grizzledgrey-brown. On the face there are twosymmetrical areas of white fur, eachextending dorsally backwards from aposition approximately level with themystacial vibrissae, around and infront of the eye, then meeting theband of the opposite side just anteriorto the bases of the ears. This whitefur extends to a position just behindthe ears where it changes to thegrizzled coat colour. The ventral orundersurface of the body is grey-white.Eye pigmentation and granulation offoot pads appear to be normal.
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As far as I am able to determine,this piebald variant is a unique recordfor Antechinus swainsonii. The following observations havebeen made on the habitat of the speciesat Gellibrand River. The basic rockof the area is basalt of the Older Vol-canic Series. The eucalpyts, Messmate(Eucalyptus obliqua), and MannaGum (E. viminalis), form an opencanopy. Other species of the treelayer are Tree Everlasting (Helichry-sum dendroideum), and Blackwood(Acacia melanoxylon). The shrublayer is light and there are numerousmoss-covered fallen logs, Bracken(Pteridium esculentum), and Fish-bone Fern (Blechnum nudum), whichprovide useful shelter for A. swain-sonii. Clumps of Tussock Grass (Poaaustralis), and Wiregrass (Tetrarrhenajuncea), enclose small runways whichalso provide cover for numerous Rat-tus fuscipes assimilis. Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Mr. J. Clancy,of Gellibrand River, who has allowedme to trap on his property on a num-ber of occasions. Miss H. Aston,Senior Botanist of the Royal B

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