Carnivorous Nights_ On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger - Margaret Mittelbach [153]
9. HOppINg
P. 95, LL. 24–25. “The wombat is a Joy”: William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters with a Memoir, Volume II (New York: AMS Press, 1970), p. 220. Originally published in 1895, this collection of more than three hundred letters is reproduced electronically in “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive” at www.iath.virginia.edu/rossetti/. This online archive is published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
P. 95, LL. 31–34. I never reared a young Wombat: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, pen and ink drawing in the collection of the British Museum, November 6, 1869. The drawing/poem combination is reproduced electronically in “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti” at www.iath.virginia.edu/rossetti/.
11. SUICIDe HeN
P. 115, LL. 8–15. From Smithton to Marrawah: Bernard Cronin, “The Way to Marrawah,” Bulletin, March 15, 1917.
13. a tigeR HUNteR
PP. 142–43, LL. 32–34 and LL. 1–18. REPORT BY JAMES MALLEY: “The Report of the Search for the Thylacine that was conducted by Jeremy Griffith, James Malley, and Robert Brown” dated December 17, 1972, p. 16. [Unpublished.] Used by permission of James Malley.
15. LISteNINg fOR tIgeRS
P. 155, LL. 11–16. Indeed, in neither its broad outline: Michael Sharland, Tasmanian Wild Life (Parkville, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1962), p. 22.
P. 155, LL. 30–32. “mainly nocturnal ”: Dave Watts, Tasmanian Mammals: A Field Guide (Kettering, Tasmania: Peregrine Press, 2002), p. 32.
P. 156, LL. 34–35. “making a curious yapping”: Sharland, Tasmanian Wild Life, p. 10.
P. 158, LL. 23–25. “is probably extinct”: Triggs, Tracks, p. 49.
16. 1-300-fOX-OUt
P. 165, LL. 2–3. “kookaburra sits”: Marion Sinclair, “Kookaburra” song (Larrikin Music Publishing, 1936).
17. tHe ReD fOg
P. 182, LL. 12–15. J. E. Kinnear, “Eradicating the Fox in Tasmania: A Review of the Fox Free Tasmania Program” (March 2003).
22. mytHICaL CReatURes
PP. 222–23, LL. 1–38 and LL. 1–20. Palana, the little star: Jackson Cotton, Touch the Morning: Tasmanian Native Legends (Hobart, Tasmania: O.B.M., 1979), pp. 17–18. Used with permission from Jane Cooper.
P. 225, LL. 6–11. Tasmanian aboriginal legend of the platypus: Cotton, Touch the Morning, pp. 45–46.
24. BLOOD aND SLOPS
P. 237, LL. 18–24. An exceptionally large proportion: Steven J. Smith, “The Tasmanian Tiger—1980: A report on an investigation of the current status of thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus ” (National Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania, May 1981), p. 97.
P. 238, LL. 10–13. Sideling Aboretum: public sign posted by Forestry Tasmania.
P. 241, LL. 23–27. What I viewed for two minutes: James Woodford, “New Bush Sighting Puts Tiger Hunter Back in Business,” Sydney Morning Herald, January 30, 1995.
25. BeaCHes aND Beasts
P. 249, LL. 3–15. A vast pulpy mass: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale (New York: Modern Library, 2000), pp. 401–402.
P. 249, LL. 16–19. The first known sighting: Richard Ellis, The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature (New York: Penguin Books, 1999), p. 257.
P. 252, LL. 10–14. Last known thylacine died: Tasmanian Museum exhibit film.
PP. 255–56, LL. 32–36 and LL. 1–16. It was our business to squeeze: Melville, Moby-Dick, pp. 600–601.
26. IN tHe Name Of geORge pRIDeaUX HaRRIS
P. 259, LL. 21–26. Another day I ascended: Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World (New York: Modern Library,