ANIMAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 122, 30 April 1883, Page 3

ANIMAL.

;bf An ixfraordiriary breatarer.Csayß the Australasian) was captured at Gdng Gong aife^days agdiWhichesom'e people declare to be -the original of the many «fburiyip ; * stories which every now and lien crop up. m different parts of the: coloDy. It is about four feet m length; j and- hag four leg?, webfooted, a snout somewhat reseibbling that of a pig 1^ It s is covered ijnth 1 a coat of le'tftheraj'thoße m the^tail^ being* -six or seven inches m length,, but getting ■ m shorter and finer as they grow alons the; I .Jbaclc towards thjj head, until they termiv "nate on tfie shoalderis and head m a kind of down, dade blue in.color. The hinder part of. the body is coyered with • scales similartb those of a fish, and the tail i "which comes back over the hinder r pait qf the body; is divided, into two ' par% each part being, about Bin long and iin broad.' The sttanger has ' i >■' greenish : eyes, and f appeara m be amphibious, aB it had just come out of a largeVcjam near the Vail way line, The inionater was disibled by a charge, of shot, and the person who shot it advanced todesDalch the thing, when it seiped therstopkx)f the,gnn and squealed like a pigl The' skmnas been carefully pej-