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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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blown away, leav-ing the ground bare and very subjectto erosion. Rabbits None of us had ever seen suchenormous numbers of rabbits any-where as were on Lady Julia PercyIsland in December 1967; they wereliving amongst the rocks around thesouthern and western sides of theisland, and amongst the bracken andpigface. There was an absolute swarm-ing horde over the pigface in par-ticular, for this was practically theonly available food. Many were using Muttonbird bur-rows as temporary retreats, and thisin itself is creating a serious problem:for by enlarging burrow entrances,they are increasing the possibility oferosion, and already many acres ofthe islands surface have becomedust-bowls. Perhaps the most amazing featureof our trip however, was to see somany half-grown rabbits dying ofstarvation. Despite the problem whichthe rabbits are creating, it was atragic sight to see these animals tooweak to run from beneath our feet.On one occasion, one moved slowlyfrom under my feet into a shallow 125
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/j/>y y /r /jc/ Drawn by Author. Vict. Not.—Vol. 85 burrow, and by the time I hadremoved the top of the burrow andextracted it (no more than a halfminute later), it was dead. Otherstried to run, but were unable to maketheir hind legs function properly. Everywhere were dead rabbits—yetwe estimated that there must havebeen scores of thousands on the islandstill alive. There was no evidence of myxoma-tosis amongst these animals, as therehad been in better years. Mosquitolarvae were seen in rock pools belowThunder Point, but none were collec-ted, as a rising south west wind madeit impossible to climb down the cliffface which was drenched with spray. Seals The number of seals seemed to haveincreased slightly, with colonies alongthe east and west sides in particulardeveloping as maternal sites insteadof bachelor colonies as we notedthree years ago. The suckling of apparent yearlingsas noted previously was again ob-served. Fishermen told us that some of theseals remain at the Island t

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