Black-striped Wallaby Size:17 x 27 cm (A4) pearls and a whale spout

pearls and a whale spout

myriads were suspended in thick clusters on the highest trees

circa 1870 (possibly part of a panorama)

was the most ambitious and finest ever published of Australian birds

designers of the The Federal Capital at Canberra

Black-striped Wallaby Size:17 x 27 cm (A4) pearls and a whale spoutCreator Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845 1863) Date 1863 The black striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis), also known as the scrub wallaby or eastern brush wallaby, is a medium sized wallaby found in Australia, from Townsville in Queensland to Narrabri in New South Wales. (Gould syn: Black striped Wallaby, Halmaturus dorsalis) Source: Smithsonian Library