Word: amphibolurus
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...turned over most of the loose rock on the island and after much search secured 16 species of reptiles, including, as near as we can tell from Waite's Reptiles of Southern Australia, all the topotype species at least--several geckos, two legless lizards, spring and long-tailed egernias, Amphibolurus, the small python which is common there, etc. . . There were thousands of a dark wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds are very few, one--a little scrub...
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