Capitolo 94
enigma-monkeys, the characteristic-articulated casuarinas (how grown horsetails
in the great willows), and the park-as forests of blue gum-trees, with
their smooth stems stole of their external barking, imparts a marvellously
aged and the little family tone to the general aspect of Australian
terrestrial woody. All these types belong from classes birth you crave since then extinct
in the greatest continents. The washes rubbing show any greenswards grassy; grasses,
what elsewhere the carpet earth, was almost unknown up to he/she introduced
from Europe; in the wild earths, bushes and undershrubs of venerable old man
cover of aspect the ground, extraordinary for their rigid foliage, dry, of metallic thread,
them vertically instead of leaves horizontally flattened, and them
blue-green dead and general or colour of glaucous. Together, the vegetation
it, although it contains some forms more modern than the animal
world, is essentially still piece of antiquariato in type, a strange survival from the
flora forgotten of the chalk age, the oolite and also the lias.
Again, to winged animals as birds and bats and bugs volatori the
ocean forms far less than a barrier that does to quadruped, to
repent, and to fresh-water fishes. From now Australia it has, to some
extension, invades later from typist of birds and the other creatures volatrici,
who live on there side side with the ancient animals of the secondary one
model. Nightingales, thrushes, flycatchers, to have her/it, and crows owe all both
immigrant comparatively recent from the Asian continent. Also in this
however you still respect the Australian life-region, it is born an antiquated
and I wait not developed. In any other place in the world we find a lot those
greater types of birds represented by the cassowaries, the emus and the
mooruk of Britain New. The extreme term in this very ancient set
of creature is given again there by the non winged bird, the apteryx or kiwi
Zealand which almost feathers resembles to hair, and of whom grotesque
I wait ago a lot for it as a wonders in his/her his/her own class as the