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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date:January 12, 1889
Page Number: 12
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: February 12, 1889
Page Number: 5
AUSTRALIAN SNAKES.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: March 2, 1889
Page Number: 6
AUSTRALIAN SNAKES.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: August 20, 1889
Page Number: 6
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: September 7, 1889
Page Number: 9
DISCOVERY IN NATURAL HISTORY.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: September 21, 1889
Page Number: 12
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
GERMANTON, FRIDAY.
Mr. Henry James M'Cooey, the naturalist, has discovered
at Germanton a wonderful albino specimen of the Great Kingfisher or "Dacelo gigus." The specimen is regarded as entirely unique, and
is the property of Mr. A. T. M'Lean, manager of the Commercial Bank at Germanton. Mr. M'Cooey has drawn up a lengthy notice of the
albino, and Professor Stephens has promised to read it when exhibiting the bird nt the next meeting of the Linnean Society. Mr. M'Cooey
is already the discoverer of several interesting albinos.
William John Stephens
(1829–1890)
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: October 4, 1889
Page Number: 4
"SPARROWS AND INSECT LIFE,"
AND CROWS AND HAWKS.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: October 4, 1889
Page Number: 4
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I thank Mr Bray for his interesting article. He is a close observer of Nature's mysterious workings, and although on more than one occasion I have on nice questions of natural science differed widely from him in these columns, still I have a considerable amount of
respect for his opinions.
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Professor Stephens exhibited, on behalf of Mr. M'Cooey, an albino specimen of the laughing
jackass (Dacelo gigas) from Germanton, New South Wales, and communicated a note respecting it, in which, reference was made to the
supposed snake-killing propensities of the laughing kingfisher. Also, on behalf of the same gentleman, he showed the head of a snake (Diamenia)
in which, on one side of the jaw, probably owing to accidental injury, two poison-fangs were present.
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: November 12, 1889
Page Number: 4
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With regard to the discovery of an extra poison fang in some venomous snakes said to have
been made by Mr. M'Cooey, of New South Wales, I fear some misconception of the anatomy of the part must have taken place. On removing
the bone which carries the poison fang there are found several teeth developing in series, each smaller than the other. The fang is
often lost by accident, but when an old fang is about to be shed by natural process a new one will appear behind it ready to take
its place, and so for a time two fangs may appear on that particular side of the mouth.
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INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN ZOOLOGY.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: November 19, 1889
Page Number: 7
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
COOTAMUNDRA, MONDAY.
Mr. Henry James M'Cooey, the naturalist, has
discovered an entirely new and singularly beautiful specimen of lizard near Cootamundra. Three excellent specimens of this interesting
reptile have been obtained by Mr. M'Cooey, two of which have been forwarded to the Australian Museum. Mr M'Cooey's lizard belongs
to the genus Ligosoma, and is distinguished from all other species by its general beauty, and in particular by two parallel bands
of rich orange colour, which traverses longitudinally each of its sides. This new and interesting addition to the zoology of Australia
will be described at the next meeting of the Linnean Society.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: December 3, 1889
Page Number: 7
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
COOTAMUNDRA, MONDAY.
Mr. Henry James M'Cooey, the naturalist, has
made a further interesting zoological discovery near Cootamundra, having captured and forwarded in a live state to the Australian
Museum three excellent specimens of an extremely rare legless lizard (Delma impar), the only one of which previously obtained was
first described in 1882. Mr. M'Cooey has also obtained four more specimens of his own lizard (Lygosoma M'Cooeyi), so named in honour
of the discoverer. One specimen of this superb reptile has been forwarded alive to Sydney by Mr. M'Cooey.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Date: December 7, 1889
Page Number: 8
Lygosoma M'Cooeyi - Yowieocalypse has yet to find this species via online searches...
UPDATE (17-05-2013): Lygosoma Maccooeyi - Southern
rainbow-skink Carlia tetradactyla - (O'Shaughnessy, 1879)
Synonym Lygosoma maccooeyi RAMSAY & OGILBY 1890
Mr. James S. Bray, writing to the Sydney Morning Herald, says:—"The interesting
information relative to Mr. H. J. M'Cooey's (of the Linnean Society) discovery of an extra poison fang in a venomous snake, making
altogether three in the place of two, is deserving of more than a passing notice...