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ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| The Australian Bower-bird | 409 |
| Wallace's Standard-wing Birds-of-paradise, male and female | 411 |
| Head of the Valley Quail | 412 |
| A Quail Family | 413 |
| Out Prospecting | 414 |
| Quartz-mill in the Gold-mines | 415 |
| Australian Gold-hunters | 416 |
| A Gold-miner's Home | 417 |
| A Chinese Discussion | 418 |
| Wrecked on the Reef | 420 |
| The Manatee, or Dugong | 421 |
| Evening at Home on the North Coast | 422 |
| Dingoes, or Australian Wild Dogs | 423 |
| Australian Wild Horses | 424 |
| A Kangaroo Battue, or Drive | 425 |
| Red Kangaroo | 426 |
| Short-eared Kangaroo | 426 |
| Kangaroos in Captivity | 428 |
| A Corroboree | 431 |
| Something for Breakfast | 432 |
| Near the Camp | 433 |
| An Australian Courtship | 434 |
| The Night Alarm | 435 |
| Reception of a Brickfielder | 437 |
| A Brickfielder putting in its Work | 438 |
| Building a Railway on the Plains | 439 |
| Zigzag Railway in the Blue Mountains | 441 |
| The Blue Mountains | 442 |
| On the Head-waters of the Murray River | 443 |
| Gallery of a Theatre during a Performance | 445 |
| Scene in the Riverina | 447 |
| Steamboat on the Murray River | 449 |
| Fish-hatching Boxes on a small Stream | 450 |
| Immigrant's Camp in the Foot-hills of the Range | 451 |
| The Founding of Melbourne, August, 1835 | 453 |
| Public Library, Melbourne | 454 |
| Melbourne Post-office | 455 |
| Government House, Melbourne | 456 |
| Collins Street in 1870 | 457 |
| Public Offices and Treasury Gardens | 458 |
| Town-hall, Melbourne | 459 |
| View from South Melbourne, 1868 | 460 |
| Part of Melbourne in 1838 | 461 |
| A Suburban Residence | 463 |
| Harbor Scene in the Moonlight | 465 |
| Boarding-house of 1851 | 466 |
| A Good Location for Business | 467 |
| Loading a Ship from a Lighter | 468 |
| The Artillery Rocks, near Lorne, on the Coast of Victoria | 471 |
| Waiting to see the Editor | 472 |
| Distributing Papers to Newsboys | 473 |
| The Race for the Melbourne Cup | 475 |
| Head of a Winner | 476 |
| A Cricket-match | 477 |
| Summer Retreat in the Mountains | 479 |
| Caught in a "Burster" on the Australian Coast | 481 |
| Seeking Shelter | 482 |
| Pioneer Gold-hunters | 483 |
| Map of the Gold-fields of Victoria Twenty Years ago | 484 |
| Edward Hargreaves, the Gold Discoverer | 485 |
| The Rush to Ballarat | 486 |
| Lake Scenery | 487 |
| A Gippsland Settler | 489 |
| The Peach Harvest | 491 |
| A Cottage in the Suburbs of Launceston | 492 |
| An Old Settler | 493 |
| At Bay in the Bush | 494 |
| A Camp in the Bush | 495 |
| Entrance to Cave | 497 |
| Near Deloraine | 498 |
| Australia at the Feet of Tasmania | 500 |
| Old Convict Church, Port Arthur, Tasmania | 501 |
| One of the Watch-dogs | 502 |
| "Land, ho!" | 502 |
| On the Pier | 503 |
| Post-office and Town-hall, Adelaide | 505 |
| Adelaide in 1837 | 507 |
| Reaping Brigade at Work | 509 |
| Proclamation Tree at Glenelg, near Adelaide | 510 |
| Victoria Regia House, Botanic Garden, Adelaide | 511 |
| Exploring Expedition on the March | 513 |
| Camp Scene on the Desert Plains of South Australia | 515 |
